In 1948, the Communist Party finally defeated the Czechoslovak government over the next few years and adapted the Czechoslovak economy to the other countries of the USSR over the next few years. On the basis of this was also nationalized the health care, which passed to Semashko model of...

We investigate the existence of an "electoral cycle bias" in the timing of media coverage of news with high political value. In particular, we analyze how the electoral cycles at the regional level influence the coverage of news about corruption scandals in the Italian Regional Health Systems by...

Der Sammelband enthält die erweiterten Referate eines interdisziplinären Workshops über Rationalisierungsreserven im deutschen Gesundheitswesen, insbesondere in dem Bereich der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV). Das Themenspektrum umfasst Effizienzpotentiale im stationären Bereich,...

Dieser Band der Bad Orber Gespräche 2006 enthält die erweiterten Referate eines interdisziplinären Workshops zu den Chancen und Grenzen eines Wettbewerbs im Gesundheitswesen. Hier erörtern prominente Vertreter der Kassenärztlichen Vereinigung, der Krankenhausträger, der pharmazeutischen...

In den vergangenen Jahrzehnten haben sich durch die Europäische Integration zahlreiche Einflüsse auf das deutsche Gesundheitswesen ergeben. Hierzu zählt neben den Aktionsprogrammen der Europäischen Union zur Verbesserung der öffentlichen Gesundheit und der Anwendung der Offenen Methode der...

Dieser Band der Bad Orber Gespräche 2009 enthält die erweiterten Referate eines interdisziplinären Workshops zu Reformkonzepten im Gesundheitswesen nach der Bundestagswahl 2009. Vertreter des Gemeinsamen Bundesausschusses, der ärztlichen Verbände, der Krankenhausträger, der...

In developed countries, both universal and optional parts of healthcare exist. This article shows the importance and fiscal position of universally available care and suggests where it can be extended by optional financing schemes such as prepaid health programmes. We use a comparative approach,...

Background: Across the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), pay-for-performance (P4P) programs have been implemented in the inpatient sector to improve the quality of care provided by hospitals. However, little is known about whether such...

Warum wissen so wenige Patienten, dass sie sich auch im EU-Ausland medizinisch behandeln lassen dürfen – zu den gleichen Konditionen wie im Inland und ohne zu-sätzliche Auslandskrankenversicherung? Und warum wird diese Möglichkeit bisher so wenig genutzt, obwohl die nationalen...

The quality of care provided by health systems contributes towards efforts to reach sustainable development goal 3 on health and wellbeing. There is growing evidence that the impact of health interventions is undermined by poor quality of care in lower-income countries. Quality of care will also...

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 production of healthcare services had been out of the business, organizational, and technological dynamic that continually revolutionized the production of all other goods and services for a long time. Nowadays, this marginality has ceased as the need for healthcare is rising. Healthcare is...

A growing literature studies the effect of enhancing the agency relationship between political incumbents and constituents on the use of health care, and specifically maternal and preventive care services. We examine the development of institutions of self-governance in India, and specifically...

Effective health services form the backbone of health interventions. Accessibility, quality, capacity, organization, availability of human and physical resources and equity in the provision of health services are essential for a healthcare system to deliver desired health and related sustainable...

Major characteristics of U.S. health care delivery -- Foundations of U.S. health care delivery -- Historical overview of U.S. health care delivery -- Health care providers and professionals -- Technology and its effects -- Financing and reimbursement methods -- Outpatient services and primary...

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...

Several studies of health system responsiveness focus on the demand-side by investigating the association between socio-demographic characteristics of patients and their reported level of responsiveness. However, little is known about the influence of supply-side factors. This paper addresses...