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. The book also looks at the ways hospitals are working to reduce medical errors, which are often fatal. For example, more people die every year from medical errors than from traffic accidents or breast cancer. To optimize patient safety, several countries use sophisticated IT systems, nonpunitive reporting measures for error identification and prevention (making them part of quality management), and greater transparency.
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The latest edition of Health Policy Developments describes how countries search for solutions that combine the state's role with private entrepreneurship.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9783892048732
Publisert
2006-07-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Bertelsmann Foundation
Vekt
149 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
120

Om bidragsyterne

Reinhard Busse is professor and department head for health care management at Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany. Annette Zentner is a research fellow at the Department of Health Care Management at the Berlin University of Technology, Germany. Sophia Schlette is project manager of the Health Division at the Bertelsmann Foundation, Germany.