Funding Health Care
Elias Mossialos
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Description for Funding Health Care
Paperback. "Funding Health Care". Editor(s): Dixon, A.; Figueras, Josep; Kutzin, Joe. Series: European Observatory on Health Care Systems. Num Pages: 328 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 1D; KFFD; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
The question of how to generate sufficient revenue to pay for health care has become a serious concern for nearly all European policy-makers. This book examines the advantages and disadvantages of funding arrangements currently in use across Europe. Adopting a cross-national, cross-disciplinary perspective, it assesses the relative merits of the main methods of raising resources including taxation; social, voluntary and supplemental forms of insurance; and self-pay including co-payments. Chapters written by leading health policy analysts review recent evidence and experience in both eastern and western Europe. The volume is introduced by a summary chapter which integrates conceptual issues in funding ... Read more
The question of how to generate sufficient revenue to pay for health care has become a serious concern for nearly all European policy-makers. This book examines the advantages and disadvantages of funding arrangements currently in use across Europe. Adopting a cross-national, cross-disciplinary perspective, it assesses the relative merits of the main methods of raising resources including taxation; social, voluntary and supplemental forms of insurance; and self-pay including co-payments. Chapters written by leading health policy analysts review recent evidence and experience in both eastern and western Europe. The volume is introduced by a summary chapter which integrates conceptual issues in funding ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Open University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
European Observatory on Health Care Systems
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780335209248
SKU
V9780335209248
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99-1
About Elias Mossialos
Elias Mossialos is Reader in Health Policy, Department of Social Policy and Co-Director of LSE Health and Social Care at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Research Director of the European Observatory on Health Care Systems. He has recently co-edited Health Care and Cost Containment in the European Union and Public Health Policies in the European ... Read more
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