Funding health care : options for Europe / edited by Elias Mossialos...[et al.]
Imprint
Buckingham, Phildelphia : Open University Press, c2002
Descript
xvi, 309 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Funding health care: an introduction -- Funding health care: taxation and the alternatives -- Social health insurance financing -- Health financing reforms in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union -- Private health insurance and medical savings accounts: theory and experience -- Voluntary health insurance in the European Union -- User charges for health care -- Informal health payments in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union: issues, trends and policy implications -- Lessons on the sustainability of health care funding from low-and middle-income countries -- Funding long-term care: the public and private options -- Strategic resource allocation and funding decisions -- Funding health care in Europe: weighing up the options