Winfried de Gooijer

Trends in EU Health Care Systems

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The nations of the EU have long led the world in universal health coverage. Recent economic developments have created problems ranging from inequities of care to growing numbers of uninsured - a progression analyzed by Win de Gooijer in Trends in EU Health Care Systems. His ideas may be startling, and the book is bound to be controversial. This is critical reading for health care managers and policymakers, politicians and insurors - anyone looking to Europe to understand this far-reaching evolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer New York / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 11615415, 978-0-387-32747-1
• 2007
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 900g
• ISBN-13: 9780387327471
• ISBN-10: 0387327479
• Artikelnr.: 20797979

Inhaltsangabe

A Changing Social Context.- Moving Along a Continuum.- Promoting and Opposing the Market.- The Arguments.- The Effects.- Consequences for Health Care Systems.- Health Care and the Economic Order.- Health Care Dynamics.- The Influence of the European Union.- Investing in Health Care.- Health Care Reforms.- The Effects.- Reflections.- The Social Context Reconsidered.- On Managing Health Care.- Epilogue.- Epilogue.

Rezensionen

"This 12-chapter volume discusses the history, development, and future directions of the EU health care systems. The author describes how health care, economics, and politics are intertwined in society. The influence of 2 extremes, private initiative and commanding government, is reviewed. Movements of societies between these extremes and their consequences are described. The foundation of the EU health care systems, namely solidarity in access to health care, is now at risk because of movement to an exclusive free market model. Ideas about building a strong economy within the EU while taking care of the needy, including solidarity in health care, are discussed.

This important, timely, and well-referenced text clearly points out the consequences of free market economics vs. economics overseen by commanding governments and their effects on health care systems."

Dietlind L. Wahner-Roedler, MD, Division of General Internal Medicine, Mayo ClinicCollege of Medicine, Rochester, MN

Aus den Rezensionen: "... Gesundheit ist vielen Menschen wichtiger als Besitz oder Arbeit. So ist es nicht überraschend, dass Ihre Bereitschaft zur Anspruchsreduktion niedrig ist. In der Folge wird Gesundheitspolitik besonders intensiv und kontrovers diskutiert. Wer diese komplexe Diskussion besser verstehen ... will, bekommt mit der Lektüre des Buches einen kompakten Einblick in die Entwicklungsgeschichte des Gesundheitssystems in den EU-Staaten der vergangenen vier Jahrzehnte. ... Fußnoten sind als Endnoten angelegt, was den Lesefluss erheblich verbessert. ... Ein Index rundet die Recherche für den Leser im Buch ab ..." (www.pr-guide.de)