1st Edition
Recent Health Policy Innovations in Social Security
By Xenia Scheil-Adlung
Copyright 2001
350 Pages
by
Routledge
350 Pages
by
Routledge
350 Pages
by
Routledge
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The debate about health care reform has gone on for many years. The debate has generated often innovative ideas for reform that transcend national boundaries. For example, proposals have been made for an extension of health insurance with a framework of social protection; progressive development of funding methods; controls on expenditure; bringing benefits into line with what is actually needed;... Read more
1: Introduction; 1: Worldwide Innovations in Health Insurance Reform; 2: New Approaches in Extending Health Care Coverage; 2: New Strategies for the Formal Sector: Focus on Vietnam and Zimbabwe; 3: Health Protection for Informal Sector Workers: New Approaches to a Long-Standing Problem; 3: Confronting Resource Scarcity: Innovative Strategies; 4: Managed Care in the United States: Its History, Forms, and Future; 5: China: Innovations in Health Care Financing—Mixing Individual and Collective Responsibility; 4: Refining Benefits to Meet Current Needs; 6: Moving to Integrate Prevention, Curative Prevention, and Curation; 7: New Benefits Dealing with Ageing Populations: Long-Term Care; 8: Establishment of Long-Term Care Insurance Scheme in Japan; 5: New Institutional and Administrative Frameworks; 9: Should Health Care be Part of the Social Security System or a Separate Scheme?; 10: Private Participation in Supporting the Social Contact in Health: New Insights from Institutional Economics; 11: Mutual Benefit Societies: Solutions in Europe, North Africa, and Latin America; 6: Transformation through Information Technology Systems; 12: Possibilities Offered by New Information Technology; 13: Building Up Telecommunications in the German Health Insurance Systems: Aims, Requirements, Barriers, Components; 14: Data Protection and Data Security in Shared Care Information Systems
Biography
Aviva Ron, Xenia Scheil-Adlung
