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Product Description: This new volume consists of structured case studies summarizing the state of primary care in 31 European countries. It complements the previous study, Building Primary Care in a Changing Europe, which provided an overview of the state of primary care across the continent, including aspects of governance, financing, workforce and details of service profiles...read more
By Wienke G. W. Boerma (editor), Allen Hutchinson (editor), Dionne S. Kringos (editor) and Richard B. Saltman (editor)

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9789289050333 | 1 edition (World Health Organization, December 31, 2015), cover price $72.00 | About this edition: This new volume consists of structured case studies summarizing the state of primary care in 31 European countries.

Product Description: There is a clear need to redesign delivery systems in order to better meet the needs created by chronic conditions, moving from the traditional, acute and episodic model of care to one that better coordinates professionals and institutions and actively engages service users and their careers...read more
By Cecile Knai (editor), Ellen Nolte (editor) and Richard B. Saltman (editor)

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9789289050302 | 1 edition (World Health Organization, December 16, 2015), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: There is a clear need to redesign delivery systems in order to better meet the needs created by chronic conditions, moving from the traditional, acute and episodic model of care to one that better coordinates professionals and institutions and actively engages service users and their careers.

Product Description: This volume analyzes how primary care is organized and delivered across European countries, looking at governance, financing and workforce aspects and the breadth of the service profiles. It describes wide national variations in terms of accessibility, continuity and coordination...read more
By Wienke G. W. Boerma (editor), Allen Hutchinson (editor), Dionne S. Kringos (editor) and Richard B. Saltman (editor)

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9789289050319 | 1 edition (World Health Organization, September 8, 2015), cover price $48.00 | About this edition: This volume analyzes how primary care is organized and delivered across European countries, looking at governance, financing and workforce aspects and the breadth of the service profiles.

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Product Description: This study of 12 countries provides an overview of recent changes in national governments' role in the governance of health systems, focusing on efforts to reconfigure responsibilities for health policy, regulation and management; the resultant policy priorities; and the initial impact...read more
By Elke Jakubowski (editor) and Richard B. Saltman (editor)

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9789289000031 | 1 edition (World Health Organization, August 31, 2013), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This study of 12 countries provides an overview of recent changes in national governments' role in the governance of health systems, focusing on efforts to reconfigure responsibilities for health policy, regulation and management; the resultant policy priorities; and the initial impact.

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Product Description: For every person over the age of 65 in today's European Union, there are four people of working age; by 2050, there will only be two. Demand for long-term care, of which home care forms a significant part, will inevitably increase in the decades to come...read more
By Wienke Boerma (editor), Nadine Genet (editor), Allen Hutchinson (editor), Madelon Kroneman (editor) and Richard B. Saltman (editor)

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9789289002882 | 1 edition (World Health Organization, May 31, 2013), cover price $48.00 | About this edition: For every person over the age of 65 in today's European Union, there are four people of working age; by 2050, there will only be two.

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Product Description: For hospital governance to be effective, it must incorporate two powerful and well-developed lines of health sector logic: on the one hand, national health policy and objectives; on the other, operational hospital management. One sphere is political, the other is technical...read more
By Hans F. W. Dubois (editor), Antonio Duran (editor) and Richard B. Saltman (editor)

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9789289002547 | 1 edition (World Health Organization, March 31, 2012), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: For hospital governance to be effective, it must incorporate two powerful and well-developed lines of health sector logic: on the one hand, national health policy and objectives; on the other, operational hospital management.

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Product Description: Decentralization has become a popular management strategy in many European health care systems. The term describes a wide variety of power transfer arrangements and accountability systems. The logic of decentralization is grounded in an intrinsically powerful idea; that smaller organizations, properly structured and steered, are inherently more agile and accountable than larger organizations...read more
By Vaida Bankauskaite (editor), Richard B. Saltman (editor) and Karsten Vrangbaek (editor)

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9780335219261 | 1 edition (Open Univ Pr, January 1, 2007), cover price $204.00 | About this edition: Decentralization has become a popular management strategy in many European health care systems.

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Product Description: Decentralization has become a popular management strategy in many European health care systems. The term describes a wide variety of power transfer arrangements and accountability systems. The logic of decentralization is grounded in an intrinsically powerful idea; that smaller organizations, properly structured and steered, are inherently more agile and accountable than larger organizations...read more
By Vaida Bankauskaite (editor), Richard B. Saltman (editor) and Karsten Vrangbaek (editor)

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9780335219254 | 1 edition (Open Univ Pr, December 1, 2006), cover price $81.00 | About this edition: Decentralization has become a popular management strategy in many European health care systems.

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Product Description: What is the best way to structure primary care services? How can coordination between primary care and other parts of health care systems be improved? How should new technologies be integrated into primary care? There is considerable agreement among national policy makers across Europe that, in principle, primary care should be the linchpin of a well-designed health care system...read more
By Wienke G. W. Boerma (editor), Ana Rico (editor) and Richard B. Saltman (editor)

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9780335213665, titled "Primary Care in the Driver's Seat: Organizational Reform In European Primary Care" | Open Univ Pr, April 30, 2006, cover price $191.95 | About this edition: What is the best way to structure primary care services?

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9780335213658 | 1 edition (Open Univ Pr, November 1, 2005), cover price $57.00 | About this edition: What is the best way to structure primary care services?

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· 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.

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9780335213641 | Open Univ Pr, July 1, 2004, cover price $177.95 | About this edition: · What are the characteristics that define a Social Health Insurance system?

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9780335213634 | Open Univ Pr, November 30, 2004, cover price $57.00

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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)
By Reinhard Busse (editor), Elias Mossialos (editor) and Richard B. Saltman (editor)

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9780335209231 | Open Univ Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: What have been the major trends in entrepreneurial behaviour and regulation in European health care?

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9780335209224 | Open Univ Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $65.95 | About this edition: A wide range of entrepreneurial initiatives have been introduced within European health care systems during the last decade.

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Product Description: This volume explores the central issues driving the present process of healthcare reform in Europe. More than 30 scholars and policy makers from various parts of Europe draw together the available evidence from epidemiology and public health, economics, public policy, organizational behaviour and management theory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780335199716 | Open Univ Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: This volume explores the central issues driving the present process of healthcare reform in Europe.

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9780335199709 | Open Univ Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $65.95 | About this edition: This volume explores the central issues driving the present process of healthcare reform in Europe.

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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)

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9780471964971 | John Wiley & Son Ltd, July 1, 1997, cover price $131.50 | About this edition: The notion of a fixed health budget seems self-evident: a public or private payer sets a time-tied ceiling on expenditures.

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Product Description: Drawing on experiences in Northern Europe and the United States, this text examines the key concepts behind the present push toward health reform in the industrialized world: contracting and solidity; contestable versus competitive markets; the role of vouchers; and physicians' clinical autonomy...read more

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9780335194254 | Open Univ Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Drawing on experiences in Northern Europe and the United States, this text examines the key concepts behind the present push toward health reform in the industrialized world: contracting and solidity; contestable versus competitive markets; the role of vouchers; and physicians' clinical autonomy.

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Product Description: The health policy debate in Northern Europe is increasingly focused on the question of introducing competition into publicly operated health delivery systems. The potential advantages and disadvantages of such a shift have come to dominate discussion among not only academics but also politicians, adminstrators, and now physicians and patients as well...read more

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9780335097296 | Open Univ Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: The health policy debate in Northern Europe is increasingly focused on the question of introducing competition into publicly operated health delivery systems.

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9780335097289 | Open Univ Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The health policy debate in Northern Europe is increasingly focused on the question of introducing competition into publicly operated health delivery systems.

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Product Description: [P]rovides a useful compendium of miscellaneous information on a large number of countries, much of which is not usually available in English. Choice The work is valuable in providing background for health statistics from different sources...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Richard B. Saltman (editor)

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9780313241116 | Greenwood Pub Group, September 7, 1988, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: [P]rovides a useful compendium of miscellaneous information on a large number of countries, much of which is not usually available in English.

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