Organization and Financing of Public Health Services in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Organization and Financing of Public Health Services in Europe write by Who Regional Office for Europe. This book was released on 2018-06-29. Organization and Financing of Public Health Services in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What are public health services? Countries across Europe understand what they are or what they should include differently. This study describes the experiences of nine countries detailing the ways they have opted to organize and finance public health services and train and employ their public health workforce. It covers England France Germany Italy the Netherlands Slovenia Sweden Poland and the Republic of Moldova and aims to give insights into current practice that will support decision-makers in their efforts to strengthen public health capacities and services. Each country chapter captures the historical background of public health services and the context in which they operate; sets out the main organizational structures; assesses the sources of public health financing and how it is allocated; explains the training and employment of the public health workforce; and analyses existing frameworks for quality and performance assessment. The study reveals a wide range of experience and variation across Europe and clearly illustrates two fundamentally different approaches to public health services: integration with curative health services (as in Slovenia or Sweden) or organization and provision through a separate parallel structure (Republic of Moldova). The case studies explore the context that explain this divergence and its implications. This study is the result of close collaboration between the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and the WHO Regional Office for Europe Division of Health Systems and Public Health. It accompanies two other Observatory publications Organization and financing of public health services in Europe and The role of public health organizations in addressing public health problems in Europe: the case of obesity alcohol and antimicrobial resistance (both forthcoming).
Organization and Financing of Public Health Services in Europe
Organization and Financing of Public Health Services in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Organization and Financing of Public Health Services in Europe write by Rechel B.. This book was released on 2018-11-20. Organization and Financing of Public Health Services in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How are public health services in Europe organized and financed? With European health systems facing a plethora of challenges that can be addressed through public health interventions there is renewed interest in strengthening public health services. Yet there are enormous gaps in our knowledge. How many people work in public health? How much money is spent on public health? What does it actually achieve? None of these questions can be answered easily. This volume brings together current knowledge on the organization and financing of public health services in Europe. It is based on country reports on the organization and financing of public health services in nine European countries and an in-depth analysis of the involvement of public health services in addressing three contemporary public health challenges (alcohol obesity and antimicrobial resistance). The focus is on four core dimensions of public health services: organization financing the public health workforce and quality assurance. The questions the volume seeks to answer are: o How are public health services in Europe organized? Are there good practices that can be emulated? What policy options are available? o How much is spent on public health services? Where do resources come from? And what was the impact of the economic crisis? o What do we know about the public health workforce? How can it be strengthened? o How is the quality of public health services being assured? What should quality assurance systems for public health services look like? This study is the result of close collaboration between the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and the WHO Regional Office for Europe Division of Health Systems and Public Health. It accompanies two other Observatory publications: Organization and financing of public health services in Europe: country reports and The role of public health organizations in addressing public health problems in Europe: the case of obesity alcohol and antimicrobial resistance.
Assuring the Quality of Health Care in the European Union
Assuring the Quality of Health Care in the European Union - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Assuring the Quality of Health Care in the European Union write by Helena Legido-Quigley. This book was released on 2008. Assuring the Quality of Health Care in the European Union available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. People have always travelled within Europe for work and leisure, although never before with the current intensity. Now, however, they are travelling for many other reasons, including the quest for key services such as health care. Whatever the reason for travelling, one question they ask is "If I fall ill, will the health care I receive be of a high standard?" This book examines, for the first time, the systems that have been put in place in all of the European Union's 27 Member States. The picture it paints is mixed. Some have well developed systems, setting standards based on the best available evidence, monitoring the care provided, and taking action where it falls short. Others need to overcome significant obstacles.
Implementing Health Financing Reform
Implementing Health Financing Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Implementing Health Financing Reform write by Joseph Kutzin. This book was released on 2010. Implementing Health Financing Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analyses the experience with the financing reforms implemented by the countries of Central Europe, Eastern Europe, the Cauxasus and Central Asia.
Voluntary Health Insurance in Europe: Country Experience
Voluntary Health Insurance in Europe: Country Experience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voluntary Health Insurance in Europe: Country Experience write by Sagan A.. This book was released on 2016-07-20. Voluntary Health Insurance in Europe: Country Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No two markets for voluntary health insurance (VHI) are identical. All differ in some way because they are heavily shaped by the nature and performance of publicly financed health systems and by the contexts in which they have evolved. This volume contains short structured profiles of markets for VHI in 34 countries in Europe. These are drawn from European Union member states plus Armenia Iceland Georgia Norway the Russian Federation Switzerland and Ukraine. The book is aimed at policy-makers and researchers interested in knowing more about how VHI works in practice in a wide range of contexts. Each profile written by one or more local experts identifies gaps in publicly-financed health coverage describes the role VHI plays outlines the way in which the market for VHI operates summarises public policy towards VHI including major developments over time and highlights national debates and challenges. The book is part of a study on VHI in Europe prepared jointly by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and the WHO Regional Office for Europe. A companion volume provides an analytical overview of VHI markets across the 34 countries.
