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Part of the book series: Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy (HEPP, volume 12)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Patient mobility across Europe is markedly increasing and new generations will actively ask to be treated by the health-care system that best meets their needs. At a political level, the EU issued the EU Directive no. 24/2011/CE of 9th March 2011 concerning the application of patients’ rights in cross-border health care and has contributed to improving the level of freedom of choice for the European citizen, but it does not seem to have increased actual patient mobility across Europe. Freedom to choose is necessary to grant the people of Europe the same access to public-sector health-care services. The latter is a key instrument for an efficiently functioning “single market” ensuring real mobility within the EU.
The aim of this book is to study the current European health care market and discuss the hypothesis of a European right of citizenship with reference to health-care services. It examines patients' mobility from several perspectives: determinants of patient mobility, governance of cross-border mobility at EU level as concerns patients and health-care professionals, policy implications, and case studies. It is intended for health researchers, decision-makers and professionals concerned with health-care provision and patient mobility. The goal is to provide, through scientific and methodological rigor, new informative tools useful for the implementation of new policies in the health-care sector in order to implement effective health-care integration in the European Union.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health Care Provision and Patient Mobility
Book Subtitle: Health Integration in the European Union
Editors: Rosella Levaggi, Marcello Montefiori
Series Title: Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5480-6
Publisher: Springer Milano
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Italia 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-88-470-5479-0Published: 30 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-88-470-5869-9Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-88-470-5480-6Published: 11 December 2013
Series ISSN: 0927-4987
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 244
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Health Economics, Migration, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis, Economic Policy, Public Economics