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Grenzen des Wettbewerbs im Gesundheitswesen
Kumpmann, Ingmar - 2008
Many health economists demand more competition in the health care system. They focus on the competition between sickness funds for insured and the competition between health care providers for contracts with sickness funds. But they neglect the competition between health care providers for...
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The German Health Care System in an International Comparison: Assessments and Reform Options
Osterkamp, Rigmar - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 3, pp. 56-63
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Monopolistic Competition and Costs in the Health Care Sector
Kumpmann, Ingmar - 2009
Gesundheitswesen diskutiert. In diesem Papier wird argumentiert, dass er diese Funktion möglicherweise nicht erfüllt, wenn die …
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The Lithuanian long-term care system
Marcinkowska, Izabela - 2010
The remarkable growth of older population has moved long-term care to the front ranks of the social policy agenda in the European Union. This paper addresses the issue of the longterm care in Lithuania, its philosophy, the legal and funding regularities, management issues and LTC policy. Its...
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The system of long-term care in Poland
Golinowska, Stanislawa - 2010
In the field of social protection, Poland belongs to the EU group of countries with the familybased welfare model, what is extremely visible for the long-term care where family is the main care provider for elderly individuals with limitations in activities of daily living. At the same time the...
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Long term care in Romania
Popa, Daniela - 2010
The increasing life expectancy and the alarming growth in the incidence of chronic illness make long term care services in high demand and in dire need of change and innovation. As part of the ANCIEN initiative, which aims to comprise a database of European approaches for dealing with long term...
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The Convergence of Health Care Financing Structures: Empirical Evidence from OECD-Countries
Leiter, Andrea M.; Theurl, Engelbert - 2009
In this paper we concentrate on the question whether the financing structure of the health care systems converges. In a world of increasing economic integration convergence in health care financing (HCF) and, hence, decreasing differences in HCF across countries enhance individuals' (labour)...
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Gerechtigkeit in Gesundheitssystemen aus ökonomischer Perspektive
Schreyögg, Jonas - 2003
Angesichts steigender Gesundheitsausgaben spielen Gesundheitssystemvergleiche in den letzten Jahren eine immer größere Rolle. Solche "Benchmarks" können sinnvolle Anregungen zur Verbesserung von Gesundheitssystemen darstellen. Viele Gesundheitssystemvergleiche unterstellen implizit ein...
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Development of scenarios for health expenditure in the new EU member states: Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia
Golinowska, Stanisława; Kocot, Ewa; Sowa, Agnieszka - 2008
The report is a result of the Ageing, Health Status and Determinants of Health Expenditure (AHEAD) project within the EC 6th Framework programme. The objective of the research was to present the model of future health care system revenues and expenditures in selected Central and Eastern European...
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A comparative study of the Turkish and German health care systems with regard to quality management in psychiatric hospitals
Yilmaz, Fatma Kantas; Ugur, Tarik Naci Norbert; Rese, … - In: International Journal of Management, Economics and … 8 (2019) 3, pp. 223-241
Mental Health Research and Training Hospital located in Istanbul/Turkey and LVR-Klinik Viersen in Germany. A comparison of … management systems have been undergoing radical changes. Social health insurance system was established in Germany in 1880s and …, which is similar to the health care system in Germany, was set up. Differences are observed in the delivery of health care …
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