European Observatory on Health Care Systems series
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Funding health care / Elias Mossialos and Anna Dixon -- Financing health care / Robert G. Evans -- Social health insurance financing / Charles Normand and Reinhard Busse -- Health financing reforms in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union / Alexander S. Preker, Melitta Jakab and Markus Schneider -- Private health insurance and medical savings accounts / Alan Maynard and Anna Dixon -- Voluntary health insurance in the European Union / Elias Mossialos and Sarah M.S. Thomson -- User charges for health care / Ray Robinson -- Informal health payments in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union / Maureen Lewis -- Lessons on the sutainability of health care funding from low- and middle-income countries / Anne Mills and Sara Bennett -- Funding long-term care / Raphael Wittenberg, Becky Sandhu and Marin Knapp -- Strategic resource allocation and funding decisions / Nigel Rice and Peter C. Smith -- Funding health care in Europe / Elias Mossialos and Anna Dixon.
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This book examines the advantages and disadvantages of health funding arrangements in use across Europe. It assesses the merits of the main methods of raising resources including taxation; social, voluntary and supplemental forms of insurance; and self-pay including co-payments.