This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United … countries to improve financing incentives and encourage efficient use of health services. In the case of risk pooling, all …. Many countries are exploring new ways of generating revenues for health care to enable them to cope with significant cost …

How does fiscal decentralisation affect the development of a health system? Evidence from health care decentralisation … in Europe can offer some insights to the question above. This paper addresses the effects of health care decentralisation … in Europe, and reviews some of the key questions on the design of a health system. We argue that contrary to old mobility …

settings and health care systems, taking into account their launch date, patent status, market dynamics and the regulatory …

The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service …

This paper provides a comprehensive picture of mental health services in England, includingstaffing and expenditure …-sections of the health and socialservices; and the readily available information often appeared to give inconsistent answers ….This paper brings together and interprets the available evidence to provide a single coherentmap of mental health need and …

When Labour came to power in 1997 it made commitments to reduce poverty and improve children’s health, education and …