health-care coverage. Priority should be given to high impact primary health care services. For more resources to translate …

There are no ready-made data on hospital outputs and inputs which would allow comprehensive international comparisons … of hospital efficiency to be carried out. This paper, therefore, relies on selected evidence to compare hospital … standard hospital treatments; ii) overall efficiency levels in a set of paired countries; iii) within-country dispersion in …

primary health care services; (iii) modernising hospital administration; and (iv) further tightening control over …

the relative price of care soared through the early 2000s. Hospital budgets and their doctors’ pay are partly based on the … prevention, a new essential drugs system and far-reaching reorganisation, including hospital reform. It will be important to make …

This paper reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the Swedish healthcare system and the challenges that it will face … care. Mechanisms for improving the hospital sector are also examined including fee-for-service (DRG) payment mechanisms and …

-related health inequality appears to be smaller than in most other countries. However, the health-care system is costly and …

This paper examines within an international context, the healthcare system in Hungary. While the system resembles in … incentives both for doctors and hospital administrators. Budgetary rules prevent hospitals from properly amortising investments …