Indonesia and Vietnam have both experienced considerable growth in the private health sector in recent years. What are the policy implications of this growth?This paper, the third in a series on the role of non-state sector hospitals in Indonesia and Vietnam, reflects on the major themes of the...

Healthcare reform is not a singular event but, instead, a constant process that will continue into the foreseeable future. This Article proposes - for the first time - a creative solution to the acrimonious and debilitating method we currently use in assessing and implementing healthcare reform...

This study presents a broad overview of health-system reforms in OECD countries over the past several decades. Reforms are assessed according to their impact on the following policy goals: ensuring access to needed health-care services; improving the quality of health care and its outcomes;...

This study reviews health-system reforms in OECD countries over the past several decades and their impact on the following policy goals: ensuring access to services; improving the quality of care and its outcomes; allocating an “appropriate” level of resources to health care (macroeconomic...