Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Editors; About the Contributors; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: The Americas; Paul Shekelle; 1: Argentina: Achieving Universal Coverage; Hugo Arce, Ezequiel García-Elorrio, and Viviana Rodríguez; 2: Brazil: Patient Safety: Distance-Learning Contribution; Walter Mendes, Ana Luiza Pavão, Victor Grabois, and Margareth Crisóstomo Portela; 3: Canada: The Future of Health Systems: Personalization; Anne W. Snowdon, Charles Alessi, John Van Aerde, and Karin Schnarr
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13: Rwanda: Embracing One Health as a Strategy to EmergingRoger Bayingana and Edward Chappy; 14: Africa: Equity for All: A Global Health Perspective for the; Jacqui Stewart and Shivani Ranchod; Part III: Europe; Russell Mannion; 15: Austria: Primary Healthcare Centers: A Silver Bullet?.; Maria M. Hofmarcher, Susanne Mayer, Nataša Perić, and Thomas E. Dorner; 16: Denmark: Patient-Reported Outcomes: Putting the Patient First; Liv Dørflinger, Jesper Eriksen, Janne Lehmann Knudsen, and Carsten Engel; 17: England: Getting Personal? Personal Health Budgets; Martin Powell and Russell Mannion
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18: Estonia: e-Consultation Services: Cooperation between FamilyRuth Kalda, Kaja Põ lluste, and Margus Lember; 19: Finland: A Real-Life Experiment in Precision Medicine; Persephone Doupi; 20: France: Horizon 2030: Adopting a Global-Local Approach to; Catherine Grenier, René Amalberti, Laetitia May-Michelangeli, and Anne-Marie Armanteras-de-Saxcé; 21: Germany: Health Services Research and Future Planning in; Wolfgang Hoffmann, Angelika Beyer, Holger Pfaff, and Neeltje van den Berg; 22: Greenland: Everyday Life with Chronic Illness: Developing a; Tine Aagaard and Lise Hounsgaard
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4: Chile: The Struggle for an Integrated Health Insurance SystemOscar Arteaga; 5: Guyana: Paradigm Shift: From Institutional Care to; William Adu-Krow, Vasha Elizabeth Bachan, Ganesh Tatkan, Paul Edwards, and Jorge J. Rodríguez Sánchez; 6: Mexico: Leveraging Conditional Cash Transfers and Universal; Jafet Arrieta, Enrique Valdespino, and Mercedes Aguerrebere; 7: Trinidad and Tobago: Nurse Training: A Competency-Based; Claudine Richardson-Sheppard; 8: The United States of America: The U.S. Healthcare System: A; Robert H. Brook and Mary E. Vaiana
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9: Venezuela: Learning from Failure and Leveraging Technology:Pedro Delgado, Luis Azpurua, and Tomás J. Sanabria; Part II: Africa; Stuart Whittaker; 10: Namibia: Lessons from Patient Involvement in HIV Care: A; Bruce Agins, Joshua Bardfield, Margaret K. Brown, Daniel Tietz, Apollo Basenero, Christine S. Gordon, Ndapewa Hamunime, andJulie Taleni Neidel; 11: Nigeria: Doing More with Less: Lean Thinking in the Health; Emmanuel Aiyenigba; 12: South Africa: Regulated Standards: Implementation and; Stuart Whittaker, Lizo Mazwai, Grace Labadarios, and Bafana Msibi
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In this book, we invited 146 authors with expertise in health policy, systems design, management, research, or practice, from each of the countries included, to consider health reforms or systems improvements in their country or region. The resulting case studies, of 52 individual countries and five regional groupings, cover 152 countries or territories, or three-quarters of the world's nations. Each chapter author was asked to think 5-15 years into the future and make a prediction on how their health system could be strengthened as a result of the successful unfolding of their case study. The types of projects our authors have chosen to explicate into the future are wide-ranging. They vary from e-consultation services in Estonia, achieving universal health coverage in Argentina and Mexico, reforming long-term care in the Netherlands, reassessing care for the aging population and the frail elderly in Australia, streamlining the health system through Lean Thinking in Nigeria, using regulation to improve care in South Africa, developing a new accreditation model in Turkey, through to a critique of physician specialization in Russia and applying IT initiatives to improve care in China, Lebanon, Taiwan, Papua New Guinea, the United Arab Emirates, Venezuela and Wales. Chapter writers recognized that the improvement work they were doing was part of a moving target. There was general agreement that the effective use of limited resources and overcoming hurdles and constraints were crucial to enhancing health systems in order to deliver better care over the medium term. While some initiatives required considerable funding, many were relatively inexpensive. These case studies demonstrate ways in which fruitful application of partnerships and creativity can make considerable gains in strengthening healthcare delivery systems
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Healthcare systems.
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9781138052604
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Health services administration.
Total quality management.
Health services administration.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services & Welfare.