Cost Containment and Efficiency in National Health Systems

Rapoport, John / Jacobs, Philip (Hrsg.)

A Global Comparison
Health Care         Disease Management
Herausgegeben von Jonsson, Egon

1. Auflage - Oktober 2008
75,- Euro
2008. XIV, 233 Seiten,
ISBN-10: 3-527-32110-1
ISBN-13: 978-3-527-32110-0 - Wiley-VCH, Weinheim

Introduction And Summary (John Rapoport)
- Highlights       each country’s approach
- How        Cost containment         economic efficiency related?
- Strategies and        ir effects:      cross country analysis
- Current Policy Agenda
Canada (Raisa Deber)
- Canada’s Health Care System
- Paying        Canadian Health Care
- Delivering Health Care      Canada
- Overall expenditure trends
- Cost control strategies employed
- Current situation
Strategies To Improve Efficiency In The English National Health Service (Adam Oliver)
- Introduction
- Structural characteristics of        NHS
- The efficiency initiatives
- Conclusion
Strategies For Cost Containment In Finnish Health Care: Decentralization And Price Regulation (Unto Hakkinen)
- Introduction
- Finnish health care system
- Strategies        municipal health services
- Cost containment      services covered by NHI
- Lessons from Finland
Germany (Markus Worz         Reinhard Busse)
- A review of        major structural         operational characteristics       German health system
- Major cost containment         efficiency seeking strategies
- Report on        current situation
The Netherlands: From Limiting Supply To Limiting Demand (Werner Brouwer         Frans Rutten)
- Introduction
- The Dutch health care system      transition
- Cost containment through        years
- Future challenges
Japan (Akinoi Hisashige)
- HealthcareExpenditure Trends      Japan
- Healthcare System      Japan
- Cost Containment Strategy      Japan
- Recent trends         Future challenges
New Zealand (Toni Ashton)
- Introduction
- Overview       NZ system
- Global budgets
- The quasi-market reforms
- Management       pharmaceutical expenditure
- Priority setting
- Management       waiting lists
- Current agenda
- Conclusion
Sweden (Bengt Jonsson)
- Introduction
- Paying        performance - DRG based payments       ospitals
- Reference pricing         generic substitution
- Health technology assessment
- The current situation

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