Funding Health Care - Couverture souple

Mossialos, Elias

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0335209246 ISBN 13 : 9780335209248

Editeur : Open University Press, 2002

Synopsis

The question of how to generate sufficient revenue to pay for health care has become a serious concern for nearly all European policy-makers. This book examines the advantages and disadvantages of funding arrangements currently in use across Europe. Adopting a cross-national, cross-disciplinary perspective, it assesses the relative merits of the main methods of raising resources including: taxation; social, voluntary and supplementary forms of insurance; and self-pay including co-payments. Chapters written by leading health policy analysts review recent evidence and experience in both eastern and western Europe. This volume is introduced by a summary chapter which integrates conceptual issues in funding with an overview of the main advantages and disadvantages of each method of funding drawn from the expert chapters.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Elias Mossialos is Reader in Health Policy, Department of Social Policy and Co-Director of LSE Health and Social Care at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Research Director of the European Observatory on Health Care Systems. He has recently co-edited Health Care and Cost Containment in the European Union and Public Health Policies in the European Union.

Anna Dixon is a Research Officer of the European Observatory on Health Care Systems and a Research Associate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has edited a number of reports on the health care systems of western European countries.

Josep Figueras is the head of the Secretariat and a Research Director of the European Observatory on Health Care Systems, and is Regional Adviser for the Health Systems Analysis at the WHO Regional Office for Europe. He was co-editor of Critical Challenges for Health Care Reform in Europe.

Joe Kutzin is currently working for the World Health Organization in Kyrgyzstan as a health policy advisor. He has over 15 years' experience as a health economist, working with WHO, the World Bank, and as a consultant. He has a Master's Degree in Development Economics from Boston University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Open University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0335209246
• ISBN 13: 9780335209248
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible