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Health reform monitor––The impact of the financial crisis
Health care policies and reforms are made at an ever-increasing pace in countries around the world and policy-makers are increasingly looking to other countries for solutions to their own problems. He...
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Reinhard Busse
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The challenge and the future of health care turnaround plans: Evidence from the Italian experience
06 April 2012
Abstract: Over the last two decades, health policy and governance in Italy have undergone decentralisation at the regional level. The central government was expected to play a guiding role in defining...
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Francesca Ferrè,
Corrado Cuccurullo,
Federico Lega
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The financial crisis in Italy: Implications for the healthcare sector
01 May 2012
Abstract: The global economic and financial crisis is having and impact on the Italian healthcare system which is undergoing a devolution process from the central government to regions and where about...
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Antonio Giulio de Belvis,
Francesca Ferrè,
Maria Lucia Specchia,
Luca Valerio,
Giovanni Fattore,
Walter Ricciardi
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Health policy reform in tough times: The case of Portugal
09 May 2012
Abstract: The financial rescue plan for the Portuguese economy details a number of adjustments to be made in the National Health Service. We review the changes on user charges. The requirement of the ...
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Pedro Pita Barros
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Spanish health care cuts: Penny wise and pound foolish?
11 April 2012
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to convey the specific health care actions and policies undertaken by the Spanish government, as well as by regional governments, as a result of the economic cri...
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Joan Gené-Badia,
Pedro Gallo,
Cristina Hernández-Quevedo,
Sandra García-Armesto
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Comparing health policy agendas across eleven high income countries: Islands of difference in a sea of similarity
09 May 2012
Abstract: Does the way in which health systems are financed influence whether health policymakers are more or less interested in accessible and equitable health services? Are social democratic governm...
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Tim Tenbensel,
Samantha Eagle,
Toni Ashton
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Leadership and governance in seven developed health systems
24 January 2012
Abstract: This paper explores leadership and governance arrangements in seven developed health systems: Australia, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. It presents a cybe...
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Peter C. Smith,
Anders Anell,
Reinhard Busse,
Luca Crivelli,
Judith Healy,
Anne Karin Lindahl,
Gert Westert,
Tobechukwu Kene
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Assessing health care planning – A framework-led comparison of Germany and New Zealand
08 December 2011
Abstract: Objectives: With markets and competition dominating much of the debate on health care reform, health care planning has received little scholarly attention in recent years. Yet in many high-i...
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Stefanie Ettelt,
Mihaly Fazekas,
Nicholas Mays,
Ellen Nolte
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What characterises the privately insured in universal health care systems? A review of the empirical evidence
29 March 2012
Abstract: Objectives: This paper reviews the empirical literature on what characterises individuals with voluntary private health insurance (VPHI) in universal health care systems and assesses how wel...
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Astrid Kiil
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(De)centralization of social support in six Western European countries
30 March 2012
Abstract: Introduction: Participation of disabled or chronically ill persons into the society may require support in the sense of human or technical aid. In this study we look into the decision making...
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Madelon Kroneman,
Mieke Cardol,
Roland Friele
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76-87
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Gender sensitivity in national health plans in Latin America and the European Union
05 April 2012
Abstract: Objectives: To evaluate the situation regarding gender sensitivity in national health plans in Latin America and the European Union for the decade 2000–2010. Methods: A systematic search and...
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Erica Briones-Vozmediano,
Carmen Vives-Cases,
Rosana Peiró-Pérez
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The human factor: Re-organisations in public health policy
11 April 2012
Abstract: Introduction: Public health policy-making activities are currently split between local authority and NHS organisations. Despite an increasing body of research on evidence-based policy (EBP),...
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Kathryn Oliver,
Martin Everett,
Arpana Verma,
Frank de Vocht
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