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Author: Terry Johnson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415106313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains and illuminates the specific relationship between health professions and the state. Eight countries in Europe are examined and topical issues include: market policies, performance and quality, professional monopolies and expertise.
Author: Terry Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-04
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 1134844522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains and illuminates the specific relationship between health professions and the state. Eight countries in Europe are examined and topical issues include: market policies, performance and quality, professional monopolies and expertise.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2019-10-17
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9264805907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.
Author: Dionne S. Kringos
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789289050319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor many citizens primary health care is the first point of contact with their health care system, where most of their health needs are satisfied but also acting as the gate to the rest of the system. In that respect primary care plays a crucial role in how patients value health systems as responsive to their needs and expectations. This volume analyses the way how primary are 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. Relating these differences to health system outcomes the authors suggest some priority areas for reducing the gap between the ideal and current realities.
Author: Centers of Disease Control
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2018-06-29
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9289051701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat are public health services? Countries across Europe understand what they are or what they should include differently. This study describes the experiences of nine countries detailing the ways they have opted to organize and finance public health services and train and employ their public health workforce. It covers England France Germany Italy the Netherlands Slovenia Sweden Poland and the Republic of Moldova and aims to give insights into current practice that will support decision-makers in their efforts to strengthen public health capacities and services. Each country chapter captures the historical background of public health services and the context in which they operate; sets out the main organizational structures; assesses the sources of public health financing and how it is allocated; explains the training and employment of the public health workforce; and analyses existing frameworks for quality and performance assessment. The study reveals a wide range of experience and variation across Europe and clearly illustrates two fundamentally different approaches to public health services: integration with curative health services (as in Slovenia or Sweden) or organization and provision through a separate parallel structure (Republic of Moldova). The case studies explore the context that explain this divergence and its implications. This study is the result of close collaboration between the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and the WHO Regional Office for Europe Division of Health Systems and Public Health. It accompanies two other Observatory publications Organization and financing of public health services in Europe and The role of public health organizations in addressing public health problems in Europe: the case of obesity alcohol and antimicrobial resistance (both forthcoming).
Author: Helena Legido-Quigley
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9289071931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeople have always travelled within Europe for work and leisure, although never before with the current intensity. Now, however, they are travelling for many other reasons, including the quest for key services such as health care. Whatever the reason for travelling, one question they ask is "If I fall ill, will the health care I receive be of a high standard?" This book examines, for the first time, the systems that have been put in place in all of the European Union's 27 Member States. The picture it paints is mixed. Some have well developed systems, setting standards based on the best available evidence, monitoring the care provided, and taking action where it falls short. Others need to overcome significant obstacles.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2016-11-23
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9264265597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fourth edition of Health at a Glance: Europe presents key indicators of health and health systems in the 28 EU countries, 5 candidate countries to the EU and 3 EFTA countries.
Author: Mike Saks
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2020-07-23
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1447352106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHealth care support workers (HSWs) play a fundamental role in international health care systems, and yet they remain largely invisible. Despite this, the number of HSWs is growing fast as governments strive to combat illness and address social care issues in a world of finite resources. This original collection analyses the global experience of HSWs in the UK, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Portugal, Sweden and The Netherlands. Leading academics examine issues including the interface of HSWs with the health professions, regulatory practice risks, employment challenges and the dilemmas of an ageing population. Crucial future policy recommendations are also made for a world becoming increasingly dependent on HSWs.
Author: M. Dent
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2003-09-16
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1403938415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work provides an accessible case study approach to European health care systems, medicine and nursing. The institutional analysis explains how welfare states have reformed hospitals and health professions with varying degrees of success.
Author: Tamara K. Hervey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-11-04
Total Pages: 541
ISBN-13: 1139455354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow does the law of the European Union affect health law and policy? At first sight, it seems limited. However, despite its restricted formal competence, the EU has recently become increasingly involved in the health field. Litigation based on EU law has resulted in a 'right to receive health care services' across national boundaries which may have huge practical implications for national health systems. The EU has promulgated legislation regulating clinical research, and the marketing of pharmaceuticals; patients' rights are affected by EU legislation on data protection and product liability; the qualifications of health care professionals are legally recognised across the EU; and the EU has acted to promote public health. This book explores the various impacts of measures of EU law on national health law and policy. Through elaboration of selected examples, the authors show that, within the EU, health law cannot be regarded as a purely national affair.
