Product Description: In welchem Landkreis hat die Bevölkerung die höchste Lebenserwartung? In welcher Stadt sterben die meisten Menschen an Herzinfarkt? In welcher Region ist die Belastung durch Schadstoffe am höchsten? Und wo ist die Versorgung durch Hausärzte optimal? Der Gesundheitsatlas Deutschland zeigt auf anschauliche Weise, wie es um den Gesundheitszustand der deutschen Bevölkerung bestellt ist...read more

Product Description: Chronic noncommunicable diseases make up a large part of the burden of disease and make a huge call on health systems’ resources. Clinical guidelines are one of the ways European countries have tried to respond and to ensure a long-term perspective in managing them and addressing their determinants...read more

Product Description: Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) systems were introduced in Europe to increase the transparency of services provided by hospitals and to incentivise greater efficiency in the use of resources invested in acute hospitals. In many countries, these systems were also designed to contribute to improving – or at least protecting – the quality of care...read more

Product Description: Chronic conditions and diseases are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in Europe, accounting for 86% of total premature deaths, and the burden is likely to grow. The epidemiologic and economic analysis in this book suggests that policy-makers should make chronic disease a priority and focuses on the strategies and interventions to use: prevention and early detection; new provider qualifications and settings; disease management programes; and integrated care models, though evidence on their effectiveness and cost-effectiveness is still limited...read more

Product Description: New technologies with the potential to improve the health of populations are continuously being introduced. But not every technological development results in clear health gains. Health technology assessment provides evidence-based information on the coverage and usage of health technologies, enabling them to be evaluated properly and applied to health care efficaciously, promoting the most effective ones while also taking into account organizational, societal and ethical issues...read more

Product Description: Health targets can help to improve the governance of health systems. They express a commitment to achieve specified outputs over a defined period, and allow progress towards broad goals and objectives to be monitored.They may be quantitative or qualitative, and based on outcomes or processes...read more

Product Description: This double issue of Health Policy Developments offers a comprehensive look at international health policy trends and reforms from Fall 2005 to Fall 2006. The book reports on how various countries are approaching the challenge of improving access to health care services...read more

Product Description: The latest edition of Health Policy Developments examines how information technologies are radically changing health care—and how health care systems are altering their structures and policies to keep pace. The book also takes a closeup look at two other long-term health policy challenges, continuity and evaluation...read more

Product Description: The latest edition of Health Policy Developments describes how countries search for solutions that combine the state's role with private entrepreneurship. The book illustrates the many shapes that privatization can take in health care reform, ranging from financing models featuring co-insurance and subsidies for private insurance policies to new types of hospital ownership and new contractual relationships, such as public concessions to private providers...read more

Product Description: The latest volume of Health Policy Developments analyzes the efforts that countries undertake to ensure and regulate access to health care services. Equity, financial fairness, and quality concerns are addressed, as are obstacles to access such as regional and cultural patterns...read more

Product Description: This volume of Health Policy Developments examines topics that are high on the health policy agendas across industrialized countries: a public call for more transparency and participation in decision-making the continuing search for the most appropriate level of competencies and health service delivery the use of information technology in the provision and continuity of care This series analyzes reforms aimed to overcome obstacles and deadlocks in the policy process...read more

Product Description: This volume looks at three issues high on the health policy agendas of most industrialized countries, including current and ongoing health policy challenges of an aging society; recent developments in pharmaceutical policy; and human resources policies to cope with existing and projected shortfalls of professionals and quality issues...read more

· What are the characteristics that define a Social Health Insurance system? · How is success measured in SHI systems? · How are SHI systems developing in response to external pressures? Using the seven Social Health Insurance countries in western Europe - Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland - as well as Israel, this important book reviews core structural and organizational dimensions, as well as recent reforms and innovations. Covering a wide range of policy issues, the book: · Explores the pressures these health systems confront to be more efficient, more effective, and more responsive · Reviews their success in addressing these pressures · Examines the implications of change on the structure of SHI’s as they are currently defined · Draws out policy lessons about past experience and likely future developments in SHI systems in a manner useful to policymakers in Europe and elsewhere Social Health Insurance Systems in Western Europe will be of interest to students of health policy and management as well as health managers and policy-makers. Contributors: Helmut Brand, Jan Bultman, Reinhard Busse, Laurent Chambaud, David Chinitz, Diana M.J. Delnoij, André P. den Exter, Aad A. de Roo, Anna Dixon, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, Hans F.W. Dubois, Josep Figueras, Bernhard Gibis, Stefan Greß, Bernhard J. Güntert, Jean Hermesse, Maria M. Hofmarcher, Martin McKee, Pedro W. Koch-Wulkan, Claude Le Pen, Kieke G.H. Okma, Martin Pfaff, Richard B. Saltman, Wendy G.M. van der Kraan, Jürgen Wasem, Manfred Wildner, Matthias Wismar.

Product Description: What have been the major trends in entrepreneurial behaviour and regulation in European health care? To what degree do approaches to regulation and entrepreneurialism differ amongst subsectors and countries across Europe? What does the evidence show about successes and failures, and which successful options are open to policy-makers? A wide range of entrepreneurial initiatives have been introduced within European health care systems during the last decade...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The notion of a fixed health budget seems self-evident: a public or private payer sets a time-tied ceiling on expenditures. Such a definition, while correct, is nonetheless far from sufficient. In actual practice, the key issues revolve around not only the ?what?, but also the ?who? and the ?how? of establishing and maintaining periodic health care expenditure ceilings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)