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The Changing Role of the State in the Italian Healthcare System

Frisina Doetter, Lorraine - 2012

The present study describes and explains the changing role of the state in the Italian healthcare system since the beginning of the 1970s, with a particular focus on developments following 1978 when the healthcare system was transformed from a social insurance system into a national health...

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The changing role of the state in the Dutch healthcare system

Götze, Ralf - 2010

the Netherlands had a relatively compound healthcare system combining several characteristics of the three Western … Ölkrise zeichneten sich die Niederlande durch ein vergleichsweise gemischtes Gesundheitssystem aus, das einzelne Elemente der … die internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Niederlande zu verbessern. Zur Jahrtausendwende war die restriktive staatliche …

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The Health Care Reform Act of 2010 and Medical Malpractice Liability : Worlds in Collision or Ships Passing in the Night?

Hafemeister, Thomas L.; Hinckley-Porter, Joshua - 2011

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 tackles many health care-related issues, but medical malpractice liability reform is not one of them. Despite being a perennial target of health care reform -- with accompanying assertions that a medical malpractice liability crisis is...

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Healthcare in the light of the concept of welfare state regimes - comparative analysis of EU MS

Kawiorska, Dorota - 2015

This paper addresses issues related to health care in the context of the debate about the typology of welfare state regimes and comparative studies conducted by reference to the debate. Particular attention has been paid to the phenomenon of decommodification as one of the key dimensions that...

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Four Long-Term Scenarios for the Dutch Government and Health-Care Sector

Bos, Frits; Douven, Rudy; Mot, Esther - 2007

Netherlands: Production, Labour and Sectoral Structure in Four Scenarios until 2040 (Huizinga and Smid, 2004), the European … pharmaceuticals) are discussed. Both sectors are of great economic importance in the Netherlands. In terms of value added they …

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The Invention of the Public Interest : About Public Health, Sustainable Development and Patent Law (De Uitvinding van het Algemeen Belang: Over Volksgezondheid, Duurzame Ontwikkeling en Octrooirecht) (Dutch)

Van Overwalle, Geertrui - 2014

Traditionally, economic progress is considered to be one of the common interpretations of public interest. Recently, consensus has grown that public interest also includes public health objectives. The present paper examines to what extent the concept of public interest can be understood to...

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Gesundheit im Sozialstaat : Beiträge zum Verhältnis von Gesundheit und Politik

Bauch, Jost (ed.); Hörnemann, Gerd (ed.) - 1996 - 1. Aufl.

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The crisis imperative : crisis rhetoric and welfare state reform in Belgium and the Netherlands in the early 1990s

Kuipers, Sanneke - 2006

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Addressing Inequities in Urban Health : Do Decision-Makers Have the Data They Need? Report from the Urban Health Data Special Session at International Conference on Urban Health Dhaka 2015

Elsey, Helen; Thomson, Dana; Lin, R.; Maharajan, Uden; … - 2016

Rapid and uncontrolled urbanisation across low and middle-income countries is leading to ever expanding numbers of urban poor, defined here as slum dwellers and the homeless. It is estimated that 828 million people are currently living in slum conditions. If governments, donors and NGOs are to...

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Chapter 21 Not-for-profit ownership and hospital behavior

Sloan, Frank A. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1141-1174). 2000

The for-profit hospital is in the minority numerically in all developed countries. Although the for-profits' market share has been quite stable for decades, for-profit chains have grown in share and influence in the United States. By contrast, for-profit chains have made few inroads in other...

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