Social Health Insurance Systems In Wester Europe

Argumento de Social Health Insurance Systems In Wester Europe

Part One
Social health insurance in perspective: the challenge of sustaining stability
The historical and social base of social health insurance systems
Organization and financing of social health insurance systems: current status and recent policy developments
Patterns and performance in social health insurance systems
Assessing social health insurance systems: present and future policy issues

Part Two
The challenge to solidarity
Governance and (self-)regulation in social health insurance systems
Solidarity and competition in social health insurance countries

Key organizational issues
Shifting Criteria for benefit decisions in social health insurance systems
Contracting and paying providers in social health insurance systems
The role of private health insurance in social health insurance countries
The changing role of the individual in social health insurance systems

Beyond acute care
Prevention and public health in social health insurance systems
Long-term care in social health insurance systems

Index