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Financing Health Care in the European Union: Challenges and Policy Response: No. 17
Author(s): S. Thomson (Author), Thomas Foubister (Author), Elias Mossialos (Author)
- Publisher: WHO Regional Office for Europe
- Publication Date: 3 April 2009
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 928904165X
- ISBN-13: 9789289041652
Book Description
Focusing on the three health care financing functions: collection, pooling and purchasing, as well as on coverage, this book analyzes the organization of health care financing in the Member States of the European Union, discusses the principal financing reform trends of recent years, and assesses their capacity to help ensure fiscal sustainability.
The book includes a useful annex detailing the health care financing systems of each of the 27 Member States of the European Union. It will inform the deliberations of policy and decision-makers, both within and beyond the European Union, faced with reconciling rising costs with equitable and sustainable health care.
