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Tables of Contents for Fixing Health Budgets
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Contributors
vii
2
Preface
ix
2
Introduction
xi
PART 1 SYSTEM LEVEL ISSUES
3
72
Chapter 1 Thinking about Planned Markets and Fixed Budgets
3
10
Richard B. Saltman
Chapter 2 Priority Setting: Political Issues
13
8
Chris Ham
Chapter 3 Priority Setting: the Oregon Example
21
28
Theodore G. Ganiats
Robert M. Kaplan
Chapter 4 Efficiency of Spending Under Fixed Budgets
49
14
Alan Maynard
Chapter 5 Regulation, Competition and Equity: With or Without a Fixed Budget?
63
12
Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven
PART 2 SECTORAL AND REGIONAL DILEMMAS
75
112
Chapter 6 Fixed Budgets in the Inpatient Sector: the Case of the Netherlands
75
18
Hans A.M. Maarse
Chapter 7 Fixed Budgets in the Ambulatory Care Sector: the German Experience
93
16
Friedrich Wilhelm Schwartz
Reinhard Busse
Chapter 8 Fixed Budgets in the Pharmaceutical Sector in Germany: Effects on Costs and Quality
109
20
Reinhard Busse
Chris Howorth
Chapter 9 Federal and Provincial Roles in Canadian Health Care Budgets
129
26
Lawrence J. Nestman
Chapter 10 Swedish Experience with Fixed Regional Budgets
155
10
Johan Calltorp
Chapter 11 Setting Regional Allocations and National Budgets in the UK
165
22
Clive H. Smee
PART 3 INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES
187
42
Chapter 12 German Sickness Funds under Fixed Budgets
187
16
Sabine Richard
Karl-Heinz Schonbach
Chapter 13 The Possible Efects of a New Hospital Financing System in Austria
203
10
Karl P. Pfeiffer
Chapter 14 Fixed Budgets for Fundholding General Practitioners in the UK
213
16
Howard Glennerster
Conclusions
229
4
Index
233