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Health Targets in Europe

No review available on this record. Title : Health Targets in Europe : Learning from Experience Material Type: printed text Authors: Matthias Wismar, Editor ; Martin McKee, Editor ; Kelly Ernst, Editor Publisher: Copenhagen : European observatory on helth systems and policies Publication Date: 2008 Series: Observatory Studies Series No. 13 Pagination: ix, 164 p. Size: 24 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-92-89042-84-0 General note: Includes bibliographical referneces Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Health policy Strategic planning Class number: 362.2 Abstract: Health targets have been proposed as a tool to improve the governance of health systems. Health targets express a commitment to achieve specified outputs in a defined time period, and enable monitoring of progress towards the achievement of broader goals and objectives. They may be quantitative or qualitative, and based on outcomes or processes. However, like any tool, they must be used appropriately or they could lead to unintended or undesirable consequences. As governments strive to improve the performance of their health systems, it is timely to assess the experiences of those countries or regions that have employed targets. This book draws on a series of case studies written by experts from Catalonia (Spain), England (United Kingdom), Flanders (Belgium), France, Germany, Hungary and the Russian Federation. The book reviews the major technical, managerial and political challenges surrounding the definition and implementation of health targets. It concludes that they do offer scope to focus attention on agreed goals but, in order to realize their potential, they need to be based on evidence, accepted by those who must work to achieve them, be embedded in frameworks of mutual accountability, linked to appropriate incentive and/or sanction mechanisms and supported by an adequate intelligence infrastructure. Contents note: Divya Srivastava, Martin McKee: Emergence of Health Targets: Some Basic; Martin McKee: On target? Monitoring and Evaluation; Kelly Ernst, Matthias Wismar, Reinhard Busse, Martin McKee: Improving the Effectiveness of Health Targets; Ricard Tresserras, Pilar Brugulat: Catalonia : Improved Intelligence and Accountability; Peter C. Smith: England : Intended and Unintended effects; Stephan Van den Broucke: Flanders : Health Targets as a Catalyst for Action; Valerie Paris, Dominique Polton: France : Targeting Investment in Health; Matthias Wismar, Barbara Philippi, Hildegard Klus: Targets in a Federal System; Zoltan Voko, Roza Adany: Hungary: Targets Driving Improved Health; Kirill Danishevski: The Russian Federation : Difficult History of Target Setting; Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=14187

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Assuring the quality of health care in the European Union / Helena Legido-Quigley 

No review available on this record. Title : Assuring the quality of health care in the European Union : a case for action Material Type: printed text Authors: Helena Legido-Quigley, Author ; Martin McKee, Author ; Ellen Nolte, Author ; Irene A. Glinos, Author Publisher: Copenhagen : European observatory on helth systems and policies Publication Date: 2008 Series: Observatory Studies Series No. 12 Pagination: xxvii, 210 p. Size: 24 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-92-89071-93-2 General note: Includes bibliographical referneces Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Health policy Strategic planning Class number: 362.2 Abstract: Europe's citizens are on the move. In unprecedented numbers they are travelling across borders, their passage eased by the removal of national frontiers, the adoption of a common currency, and the growth of low cost air travel. People have always travelled within Europe for work and leisure, although never before with the current intensity; some even commute weekly between, for example, Poland and the United Kingdom. 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 may ask is "if I fall ill, will the health care I receive be of a high standard?". Until now, they could only go on trust. Surely each country had put in place systems that would ensure that the care provided on its territory was safe, effective, and humane? But they had no way of knowing whether this was the case. This book now 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. The European Union has only limited ability to take action on health care but if free movement of Europe's citizens is to become a reality, an essential measure would be to ensure that appropriate systems are in place to ensure high quality care, even if the approaches taken will vary according to local circumstances. This requires a dialogue between those responsible for funding and providing health care in Europe. This book contributes to this important process. Contents note: Quality of care : an overview; Quality of care strategies in the European Union; Patients, quality of care and cross-border care in the European; The users of cross-border health care : mobile patients; Link for e-copy: http://books.google.com/books?id=VUB3zSEm4DcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=97892890719 [...] Format of e-copy: http:// Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=14191

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Implementing health financing reform 

No review available on this record. Title : Implementing health financing reform : lessons from countries in transition Material Type: printed text Authors: Melitta Jakab, Editor ; Cheryl Cashin, Editor ; Joseph Kutzin, Editor Publisher: Copenhagen : European observatory on helth systems and policies Publication Date: 2010 Series: Observatory Studies Series No. 21 Pagination: xx, 411 p. Size: 24 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-92-89042-11-6 General note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 410-411) Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Health care reform - Eurasia Medical care - Law and legislation Medical economics Class number: 362.1068 Abstract: Since 1990, the social and economic policies of the transition countries of central and eastern Europe, the Caucasus and central Asia have diverged, including the way they have reformed the financing of their health systems. This book analyses this rich experience in a systematic way. It reviews the background to health financing systems and reform in these countries, starting with the legacy of the systems in the USSR and central and eastern Europe before 1990 and the consequences (particularly fiscal) of the transition for their organization and performance. From practical experience of implementing, advising or evaluating health financing policies in the region, the authors offer important lessons, as well as pitfalls to avoid in the reform process. This book is essential reading for health finance policy-makers, advisers and analysts in this region and beyond. Contents note: Background to health financing systems and reforms in countries in transition; Joseph Kutzin: Conceptual framework for analysing health financing systems and the effects of reforms; Christopher Daivs: Understanding the legacy : health financing systems in the USSR and central and eastern Europe prior to transition; Joseph Kutzin, Melitta Jakab: Fiscal context and health expendinture patterns; Reforms in health financing functions; Igor Sheiman, Jack Langenbrunner, Jenni Kehler, Cheryl Cashin, Joseph Kutzin: Sources of founds and revenue collection : reforms and challenges; Joseph Kutzin, Sergey Shishkin, Lucie Bryndova, Pia Schneider, Pavel Hrobon: Reforms in the pooling of founds; Hernan L. Fuenzialida-Puelma, Sheila O’Doughtery, Tamas Evetovits, Cheryl Cashin, Gintaras Kacevicius, Mark McEuen: Purchasing of health care services; George Gotsadze, Peter Gaal: Coverage decisions : benefit entitlements and patient cost sharing; Improving the performance in health financing systems; Dominic S. Haazen, Alexander S. Hayer: Financing capital costs and reducing the fixed costs of health systems; Antonio Duran, Joseph Kutzin: Financing of public health services and programmers: time to look into the black box; Sarbani Chakraborty, Sheila O’Doughtery, Panagiota Panopoulou, Milan Martin Cvikl, Cheryl Cashin, Sarah Thomson: Align public expenditure and financial management with health financing reforms; Sarah Thomson: What role for voluntary health insurance?; Peter Gaal, Melitta Jakab, Sergey Shishkin: Strategies to address informal payments for health care; William D. Savedoff, Hernan L. Fuenzalida-Puelma: Promoting accountability in health care financing institutions; Synthesis – lessons for policy from the experience of CE/EECCA countries on the implementation of health financing reforms; Joseph Kutzin, Cheryl Cashin, Melitta Jakab, Armin Fidler, Nata Menabde: Implementing health financing reform in CE/EECCA countries : synthesis and lessons learned; Link for e-copy: http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/120164/E94240.pdf Format of e-copy: http:// Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=15746

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Clinical guidelines for chronic conditions in the European Union 

No review available on this record. Title : Clinical guidelines for chronic conditions in the European Union Material Type: printed text Authors: Helena Legido-Quigley, Editor Publisher: Copenhagen : European observatory on helth systems and policies Publication Date: 2014 Series: Observatory Studies Series No. 30 Pagination: xxvi, 232 p. Size: 24 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-92-89000-21-5 General note: Includes bibliographical references Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Chronic disease Health policy Class number: 362.2 Abstract: Ageing populations and advances in the scope of medical care combine to create a situation in which chronic no communicable diseases are increasingly impacting on European health systems. Chronic no communicable diseases require a long- term perspective, not only in tackling their determinants and this preventing them from occurring, but also in developing the often complex programs needed to manage them, in which multidisciplinary teams intervene both simultaneously and consecutively. Contents note: Overview, conceptual framework and methods; Mapping clinical guidelines in Europe; Case studies on clinical guidelines for the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes mellifluous; Are guidelines in Europe well developed? Are they well implemented? Do they have any impact? A systematic review of the literature; Conclusions, policy recommendations and areas for further study; Link for e-copy: http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/195876/Clinical-Guidelines-f [...] Format of e-copy: http:// Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=16053

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The Changing National Role in Health System Governance

No review available on this record. Title : The Changing National Role in Health System Governance : A Case-Based Study of 11 European Countries and Australia Material Type: printed text Authors: Elke Jakubowski, Editor ; Richard B. Saltman, Editor Publisher: Copenhagen : European observatory on helth systems and policies Publication Date: 2013 Series: Observatory Studies Series No. 29 Pagination: xviii, 74 p. Size: 24 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-92-89000-03-1 General note: Includes bibliographical referneces Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Health policy Strategic planning Class number: 362.2 Abstract: This study of 12 countries provides an overview of recent changes in national governments' role in the governance of health systems, focusing on efforts to reconfigure responsibilities for health policy, regulation and management; the resultant policy priorities; and the initial impact. The shift in responsibilities shows little uniform direction: a number of countries have centralized certain areas of decision-making or regulation but decentralized others. The study reviews common trends, based on the country cases, and assesses potential future developments. Contents note: Comparative governance themes and issues; Country governance profiles; Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=16105

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Building European Reference Networks in Health Care

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Migration And Health In The European Union 

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