Enhancing Beneficial Competition in the Health Professions / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Contributor:

SourceOECD (Online service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Governance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (84 pages)

Contained In:

OECD Journal: Competition Law and Policy Vol. 8, no. 3, p. 69-151 8:3<69 16097521

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2007.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Health professions are overseen by an array of rules and regulations that are justified by the need to protect consumers from unqualified practitioners. The most common method of ensuring practitioner quality is professional licensure. Because health care expertise is necessary to establish the appropriate program of study, training, and examination for new professionals, a licensed profession often directly or indirectly controls its own licensure rules. In this process of selfregulation, a profession exercises its legitimate interest in maintaining the quality of its members. But a self-regulating profession also has the potential to abuse its control over who can practice and how they practice in order to enhance member income.

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