To help inform a conference organised by the Germany Ministry of Health (BMG) and the OECD on ‘Managing Hospital …

Health workforce planning aims to achieve a proper balance between the supply and demand for different categories of … health workers, in both the short and longer-term. Workforce planning in the health sector is particularly important, given … the time and cost involved in training new doctors and other health professionals. In a context of tight budget …

Major disparities in the cost of health care have made the pricing of specialist and hospital services a contentious … experiences on the pricing of health services, competition policy and models of buying specialist health care services from the … private health insurance – the major source of financing for private hospitals – plays a similar role. Second, this paper …

<OL><LI>While France has a universal public health insurance system, the coverage it provides is incomplete and the … vast majority the French population has private complementary health insurance. Among OECD countries, the share of health …

accounts for a higher share of total health expenditure than it does in any other OECD country, and the share of national …

<OL><LI>This paper analyses the Slovak health insurance system and the policy challenges it faces. It describes the … structure of health coverage and health sector reforms being implemented by the Slovak government. It provides a preliminary … assessment of the possible impact of such reforms, with a focus on the health insurance system and the possible introduction of …

<OL><LI>Private health insurance (PHI) is the sole source of primary health coverage for a third of the Netherlands … source of health coverage for the majority of the population. Most socially insured also purchase supplementary private … health coverage. All citizens are eligible for a system of coverage for long-term care and care for the chronically ill. Thus …