Overview
- Presents a four-year study that sheds new light on reform patterns across 22 post-communist healthcare systems over two decades
- Provides a comprehensive discussion of issues surrounding hospital governance and ownership
- Shows country-specific and region-wide problems and perspectives on reforming the hospital sector
- Shares insights into the current situation, ways forward and pitfalls to avoid in healthcare sector reform
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Emerging health care systems
- Governance and Eastern European hospitals
- Governance of hospitals in Central Europe
- Governance of hospitals in Eastern Europe
- Hospital Governance in post-communist countries
- Semashko model
- health care financing reforms in eastern europe
- health care markets in central europe
- health care markets in eastern europe
- health system transition in post-communist countries
- hospital reforms in central europe
- hospital reforms in eastern europe
- post-Semashko health systems
About this book
This book presents a novel view of healthcare system transition in post-communist countries. It is the first region-wide comparative study of hospital governance in Eastern Europe. Comprehensive new material shows the evolution and significance of governance, complementing recent publications on the topic from industrialised countries. Throughout the book, governance is described and substantiated as a major component that, together with provider payment mechanisms, defines the hospital sector’s operations. This view subscribes to the economists’ growing appreciation of extra-financial aspects in the discussion of incentives and regulation of healthcare markets. In particular, the book explains how governance arrangements may affect the outcomes of healthcare financing reforms, and should thus be seen as a critical determinant of their success or failure. This new model of thinking about healthcare system transition emerges from an analysis of 22 countries over the course of two decades. While the primary focus of the study is on developing the hospital sector, an extensive background chapter provides a standalone introduction to the dynamically changing landscape of healthcare in Eastern Europe and an overview of the various problems and challenges the region is facing. Practitioners, policy-makers, academics and students interested in Eastern European healthcare systems, their origins, current status and ways forward, will appreciate the book’s reflections on the problem complexity, the clarity of its concepts, and its accessible style of presentation.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Governance of Hospitals in Central and Eastern Europe
Authors: Przemyslaw Marcin Sowa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-766-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-765-9Published: 09 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5711-4Published: 11 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-766-6Published: 28 October 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 260
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Health Economics, Health Care Management, Public Administration