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Public and private roles in health care systems : reform experience in seven OECD countries / Claudia Scott.
Van Pelt Library RA395.O28 S36 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, Claudia, 1945-
- Series:
- State of health series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical policy--OECD countries.
- Medical policy.
- Medical economics--OECD countries.
- Medical economics.
- Health care reform--OECD countries.
- Health care reform.
- OECD countries.
- Physical Description:
- x, 184 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 2001.
- Contents:
- Health outcomes 6
- Health policy goals 9
- Efficiency 9
- Cost containment 10
- Equity 11
- Choice 13
- 2 Public and private roles in health care 17
- The funding role 18
- The purchasing role 20
- The provider role 21
- The ownership and regulatory roles 22
- Regulation 22
- Ownership 24
- Market failure in health care 25
- Public goods 26
- Externalities 27
- Insurance markets 27
- Provider markets 28
- Income distribution 29
- Government failure 29
- The purchaser-provider split, managed competition and managed care 30
- Defining public entitlements 32
- Classifying health care systems 35
- 3 Roles and interfaces: Germany and the Netherlands 38
- Germany 39
- Public and private roles 40
- Proposals for reform 45
- System impacts 47
- Efficiency 47
- Cost containment 48
- Equity 49
- Choice 50
- The Netherlands 51
- Public and private roles 52
- Proposals for reform 54
- System impacts 57
- Efficiency 58
- Cost containment 59
- Equity 60
- Choice 60
- 4 Roles and interfaces: United States, Canada and Australia 63
- United States 64
- Public and private roles 64
- Proposals for reform 70
- System impacts 72
- Efficiency 72
- Cost containment 75
- Equity 76
- Choice 77
- Canada 78
- Public and private roles 79
- Proposals for reform 83
- System impacts 84
- Efficiency 84
- Cost containment 87
- Equity 88
- Choice 89
- Australia 90
- Public and private roles 91
- Proposals for reform 96
- System impacts 98
- Efficiency 98
- Cost containment 101
- Equity 101
- Choice 103
- 5 Roles and interfaces: United Kingdom and New Zealand 105
- United Kingdom 106
- Public and private roles 106
- Proposals for reform 109
- System impacts 115
- Efficiency 115
- Cost containment 121
- Equity 122
- Choice 125
- New Zealand 127
- Public and private roles 128
- Proposals for reform 131
- System impacts 137
- Efficiency 137
- Cost containment 140
- Equity 141
- Choice 142
- 6 Public policy choices 145
- Trends and influences 145
- Learning from international experiences 149
- Choosing roles and interfaces 151
- Funding choices 152
- Purchasing choices 153
- Providing choices 155.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [164]-178) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0335204600
- 0335204597
- OCLC:
- 45136547
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