Financing health care in the European Union: challenges and policy responses

Thomson, Sarah, Foubister, Thomas and Mossialos, Elias ORCID: 0000-0001-8664-9297 (2009) Financing health care in the European Union: challenges and policy responses. World Health Organization on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Copenhagen, Denmark. ISBN 9789289041652

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Abstract

Health care systems across the European Union face a common challenge: the high cost of health care. Governments strive to ensure that cost pressures do not undermine values such as universal coverage and equitable financing and access. Focusing on the three health care financing functions – collection, pooling and purchasing – as well as on coverage, this book analyses the organization of health care financing in the Member States of the European Union, discusses the principal financing reform trends of recent years, and assesses their capacity to help ensure fiscal sustainability. The book includes a useful annex detailing the health care financing systems of each of the 27 Member States of the European Union. It will inform the deliberations of policy- and decision-makers, both within and beyond the European Union, faced with reconciling rising costs with equitable and sustainable health care.

Item Type:	Book
Official URL:	http://www.euro.who.int/
Additional Information:	© 2009 World Health Organization on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Divisions:	LSE Health
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Date Deposited:	14 Oct 2009 15:18
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2024 14:36
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/25510

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