This study for the European Parliament Policy Department examines the regulation for a European Health Data Space (EHDS …), proposed by the European Commission in May 2022. The EHDS introduces mandatory rules for electronic health record to facilitate … user access and portability of personal health data (primary use) and pooling of health data for research and policy …

Individuals seeking health care in Senegal, face different options in terms of which type of health service to use … use of health care providers in Senegal using a conditional Logit model on 8,395 individuals from the second Senegalese … of health providers’ use, but individual and household characteristics like location, education, and gender are also …

As of July 1998 the NAtional Health Service will be 50 years old. At a time of much soul searching it is worth …

The purpose of this paper is to examine the interplay between public and private health care. We consider a situation … where public and private health care are perfect substitutes, and the government sets the wage in the public sector and the … health care is limited if each physician does not have a genuine interest in working in the public health sector. Competition …

This volume contains thirteen papers prepared for the World Bank Conference on Innovations in Health Care Financing … for financing health care systems in developing countries. …

of health reforms in 2001, with the legislative Act No. 2889, aiming at cost containment and improvements in hospital …

An ambitious reform to increase efficiency of the Portuguese health care system was launched in 2002. In contrast to … health sector, making changes essentially irreversible. The reform has two main aims: to deliver better-quality public health … services than at present but at no higher cost; and to reduce the underlying growth rate of public health-care spending over …