Este documento tiene por objetivo acercar este debate a la realidad latinoamericana a través del análisis de los tiempos de espera de las familias, mujeres y hombres adultos, que llevan a sus hijos e hijas menores de 3 años al control pediátrico del niño sano en Montevideo. En particular,...

Long waiting lines are a common feature and a major concern in many public health care delivery systems. The waiting lines are often characterized as inefficient, because they are a burden to patients without generating any gains for providers. There is an ongoing debate in Germany regarding the...

For some considerable time now the interface between ambulatory and hospital care has been mooted as a cause of inefficiencies in the German health system and there have been calls for a softening of the strict separation between the two sectors. This debate emphasizes the need for detailed...

The ambulatory physician payment system in the German Social Health Insurance (SHI) offers incentives to reduce practice activity at the end of a billing period. Most services within a period are reimbursed at full cost only up to a certain threshold. Furthermore, capitated payments make...

Uzbekistan inherited a hospital-based health system from the Soviet Union. We explore the health system-related challenges faced during the scale-up of ambulatory (outpatient) treatment for drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan. Semi-structured...

Die Sicherstellung einer flächendeckenden, wohnortnahen und bedarfsgerechten Versorgung ist ein zentrales Anliegen der deutschen Gesundheitspolitik. Anke Schliwen untersucht den regionalen Zusammenhang von Versorgungsbedarf, Angebot und Inanspruchnahme hausärztlicher Leistungen. Dabei wird der...

In diesem Lehr- und Fachbuch wird für alle im Gesundheitssektor tätigen Profis das deutsche Gesundheitssystem mit seinen rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen, komplexen Versorgungsstrukturen und unterschiedlichen Finanzierungswegen anhand von Fallbeispielen anschaulich und verständlich erläutert....

Das Buch liefert einen umfassenden Überblick über das neue Forschungsgebiet E-Health-Ökonomie und zeigt den aktuellen Stand der Diskussion in Wissenschaft, Praxis und Politik auf. Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitswirtschaft, Gesundheitsversorgung sowie ambulante, stationäre,...

Recent reforms in health care have introduced a variety of pay-for-performance programs using financial incentives for physicians to improve the quality of care. Their effectiveness is, however, ambiguous as it is often difficult to disentangle the effect of financial incentives from the ones of...