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Title

The economics of public health care reform in advanced and emerging economies / editors, Benedict Clements, David Coady, and Sanjeev Gupta.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Clements, Benedict J.
• Coady, David
• Gupta, Sanjeev
• International Monetary Fund

Description

x, 370 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Health care reform will be a key fiscal policy challenge in both advanced and emerging economies in coming years. In the advanced economies, the health sector has been one of the main drivers of government expenditure, accounting for about half of the rise in total spending over the past forty years. These spending pressures are expected to intensify over the next two decades, reflecting the aging of the population, income growth, and continued technological innovations in health care. These spending increases will come at a time when countries need to undertake fiscal consolidation to reduce public debt ratios in the wake of the global financial crisis. In the emerging economies, health care reform is also a key issue, given substantial lags in health indicators and limited fiscal resources. For these economies, the challenge will be to expand public coverage without undermining fiscal sustainability. This book provides new insights into these challenges and potential policy responses, with cross-country analysis and case studies."--Pub. desc.

Subject

• Health care reform
• Health care reform > Developed countries
• Health care reform > Developing countries
• Health care reform > Case studies
• Health Care Reform
• Developing Countries
• Developed Countries
• Services de santé > Réforme
• Services de santé > Réforme > Pays industrialisés
• Services de santé > Réforme > Études de cas
• Santé publique
• Réformes administratives
• Pays développés
• Pays en développement
• Etudes de cas
• Gesundheitspolitik
• Gesundheitswesen
• Krankheitskosten
• Sjukvårdspolitik
• Sjukvårdsekonomi
• Industriländer
• U-länder
• Developed countries
• Developing countries
• Industriestaaten
• Schwellenländer

Genre/Form

• Case Reports
• Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Carlo Cottarelli -- Part I. Trends and outlook for public health spending -- The challenge of health care reform in advanced and emerging economies / Sanjeev Gupta, Benedict Clements, and David Coady -- Public health care spending : past trends / David Coady and Kenichiro Kashiwase -- New projections of public health spending, 2010-50 / Mauricio Soto, Baoping Shang, and David Coady -- Part II. The role of the private sector in health care financing and delivery -- The future of public and private health care insurance in Asia / Ludwig Kanzler and Alexander Ng -- Perspective on the appropriate role of the private sector in meeting health care needs / Tsung-Mei Cheng and Uwe E. Reinhardt -- Part III. Cross-country studies -- Containing public health spending : lessons from experiences of advanced economies / Justin Tyson [and others] -- Health reform lessons from experiences of emerging economies / Eva Jenkner, Baoping Shang, and Benedict Clements -- Health financing systems in East Asia and the Pacific : early successes and current challenges / John C. Langenbrunner and Ajay Tandon -- Measuring the health effects of health care reform / Jonathan Skinner and Catherine Suarez -- Part IV. Country case studies : advanced economies -- Public health expenditure reforms in Canada, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States / Justin Tyson and Izabela Karpowicz -- Challenges in reforming the Japanese health care system / Masako Li -- Coverage expansion and cost containment in the Republic of Korea / Soonman Kwon -- Containing public health spending through market-based health reform in Germany / Michael Stolpe -- Taiwan Province of China's experience with universal health care coverage / Tsung-Mei Cheng -- Part V. Country case studies : emerging economies -- Health care financing reform in India's decentralized health care system / M. Govinda Rao and Mita Choudhury -- Evidence-based health financing reform in Thailand / Pongpisut Jongudomsuk [and others] -- The challenge of health care reform in Estonia, Hungary, China, Chile, and Mexico / Saoping Shang and Eva Jenkner.

ISBN

• 9781616352448
• 1616352442

LCCN

2012398306

OCLC

778421385

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library