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Achieving Better Value for Money in Health Care / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: OECD Health Policy StudiesPublisher: Paris : OECD Publishing, 2009Description: Online-Ressource (164 p.)ISBN:
  • 9789264074231
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Druckausg.: 9789264074200 | Parallelausg.: Obtenir un meilleur rapport qualité-prix dans les soins de santé | Erscheint auch als: Achieving better value for money in health care. Druck-Ausgabe. Paris : OECD, 2009. 163 S.RVK: RVK: QX 705DOI: DOI: 10.1787/9789264074231-enOnline resources: Summary: Rising public health care spending remains a problem in virtually all OECD and EU member countries. As a consequence, there is growing interest in policies that will ease this pressure through improved health system performance. This report examines selected policies that may help countries better achieve the goal of improved health system efficiency and thus better value for money. Drawing on multinational data sets and case studies, it examines a range policy instruments. These include: the role of competition in health markets; the scope for improving care coordination; better pharmaceutical pricing policies; greater quality control supported by stronger information and communication technology in health care; and increased cost sharing.PPN: PPN: 1648731295Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-13-SOC | ZDB-13-SOC-ebook
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