OECD average. The Polish health-care system is characterised by low spending, a heavily regulated public system with a … health insurance; better coordinating among major public actors; improving hospital management; strengthening the gate …

-economic divides are reflected in differences in health outcomes. To date the health-care system, centred on four health funds, is … are having to rapidly expand the number of places in medical schools and nurse training because large cohorts of health-care …. Although the quality of care is generally good, in hospital care there is room to improve data and concern that overcrowding …

Korea’s health-care system has contributed to the marked improvement in health conditions, while limiting spending to … restructuring in the hospital sector and expanding the number of doctors.<P>La réforme des soins de santé en Corée<BR>Le système de …

, and per capita spending on health is now one of the highest in the OECD. Centralisation of hospital ownership may have …

primary health care services; (iii) modernising hospital administration; and (iv) further tightening control over …

Japan’s health-care system has provided universal access to care and contributed to the outstanding health status of … promote restructuring in the hospital sector. Quality should be improved by increasing the availability of effective new drugs …

the relative price of care soared through the early 2000s. Hospital budgets and their doctors’ pay are partly based on the … prevention, a new essential drugs system and far-reaching reorganisation, including hospital reform. It will be important to make …

fragmentation of responsibilities in the healthcare system and a strong reliance on government regulations. The organisation of the … shift towards a more demand-driven system could be encouraged by phasing out over-prescriptive hospital regulations. In …

is pressure for increased outlays on pensions, healthcare, long-term care and social assistance. The government should be …