This study presents a broad overview of health-system reforms in OECD countries over the past several decades. Reforms are assessed according to their impact on the following policy goals: ensuring access to needed health-care services; improving the quality of health care and its outcomes;...

This study reviews health-system reforms in OECD countries over the past several decades and their impact on the following policy goals: ensuring access to services; improving the quality of care and its outcomes; allocating an “appropriate” level of resources to health care (macroeconomic...

Healthcare reform is not a singular event but, instead, a constant process that will continue into the foreseeable future. This Article proposes - for the first time - a creative solution to the acrimonious and debilitating method we currently use in assessing and implementing healthcare reform...

Indonesia and Vietnam have both experienced considerable growth in the private health sector in recent years. What are the policy implications of this growth?This paper, the third in a series on the role of non-state sector hospitals in Indonesia and Vietnam, reflects on the major themes of the...

Administrative department as a mechanism of resource allocation -- The evaluation criteria for efficiency and fairness on resource allocation led by the administrative departments -- Applying rent seeking theory to analyze resource allocation by the administrative departments -- The efficiency...