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Health Services in Europe: 1988
1 September 1988
…Europe, in order to see whether Britain’s Health Service could learn from experience abroad. This interest in European – and American – systems of providing health care has continued info…
Drivers of the Growth in Medicines Expenditure
1 October 1997
Increases in expenditure on medicines, above the level of increases in health care expenditure generally, are a feature of all Western health systems, including the UK’s. This paper examines the…
Managed Care – An Option for the German Health Care System?
1 April 1998
…– is a prominent part of most other western European social systems too. However, service provision and insurance could be so co-ordinated under the banner of ‘managed competition’ that the…
The New NHS: What Can We Learn From Managed Care in New Zealand and the US?
1 July 1999
…service agreements relates closely to the New Zealand experimentation with integrated care pilots. • In conclusion, different countries need to develop flexible health care systems with the ability to adapt…
Improving Sustainability through Population Needs-Based Planning
22 October 2014, 11:00pm
…reasons why health care systems need ever increasing funding as well as reasons why universal and comprehensive public systems are unsustainable. However, increases in health care spending are not usually…
Annual Lecture 2014: Is Universal Health Coverage the Holy Grail?
19 August 2014
…development of national health care infrastructures and sustainable financing systems. Access to care continues to be a serious challenge in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with comparatively high out-of-pocket payments…
Bengt Jönsson Honoured for Contribution to Health Economics
6 August 2014
…how well individual health systems use and benefit from new medicines, both to identify when expected differences mean country-specific RE may be needed and help identify instances where health systems use…