- Additional Authors
- Oxley, Howard.
- Description
- 99 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.
- Summary
- This study presents a broad overview of health-system reforms in OECD countries over the past several decades. Reforms are assessed according to their impact on the following policy goals: ensuring access to needed health-care services; improving the quality of health care and its outcomes; allocating an "appropriate" level of pubic sector and economy-wide resources to health care (macroeconomic efficiency); and ensuring that services are provided in a cost-efficient and cost-effective manner (microeconomic efficiency).While nearly all OECD countries have achieved universal coverage of health-care risks, initiatives to address persistent disparities in access are now being undertaken in a number of countries. In light of new evidence of serious problems with health-care quality, many countries have recently introduced reforms intended to improve this, but it is too soon to generalise as to the relative effects of alternative approaches. A variety of instruments aimed at ...This paper is also published under OECD Economics Department Working Papers Series.
- Series Statement
- OECD Health Working Papers, 1815-2015 ; no.9
- Uniform Title
- OECD Health Working Papers, no.9.
- Subject
- Social Issues/Migration/Health
- LCCN
- 10.1787/865047648066
- OCLC
- oecd-lib
- Author
Docteur, Elizabeth.
- Title
Health-Care Systems [electronic resource]: Lessons from the Reform Experience / Elizabeth Docteur and Howard Oxley
- Imprint
Paris : OECD Publishing, 2003.
- Series
OECD Health Working Papers, 1815-2015 ; no.9
OECD Health Working Papers, 1815-2015 ; no.9.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Social Issues/Migration/Health
- Added Author
Oxley, Howard.
- Other Standard Identifier
10.1787/865047648066 doi