Health Care Systems in Europe under Austerity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Emmanuele Pavolini, Ana M. Guillén

      Pages 1-6

3. Country Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Sweden: Continued Marketization within a Universalist System

      • Paula Blomqvist, Ulrika Winblad

      Pages 9-30

   3. England: Health Reforms Have Improved the NHS

      • Seán Boyle

      Pages 31-56

   4. Spain: Quo Vadis? From Cost Containment to Structural Reforms

      • Juan Ventura, Eduardo González

      Pages 57-80

   5. Italy: A Strange NHS with Its Paradoxes

      • Emmanuele Pavolini, Giovanna Vicarelli

      Pages 81-101

   6. France: Squaring the Health Spending Circle?

      • Bruno Palier, Alban Davesne

      Pages 102-125

   7. Germany: Mixing Rescaling, Privatization and Managerialism

      • Patrick Hassenteufel, Tanja Klenk

      Pages 126-146

   8. Austria: A Health Care System between Continuity and Gradual Changes

      • August Österle

      Pages 147-168

   9. Poland: Decentralization, Privatization and Managerialization of the Health Care System

      • Monika Ewa Kaminska

      Pages 169-189

4. Comparative Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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   2. The Health Care Policy Quadrilemma and Comparative Institutional Reforms

      • Emmanuele Pavolini, Bruno Palier, Ana M. Guillén

      Pages 193-221

   3. The Performance of European Health Care Systems

      • Emmanuele Pavolini, August Österle

      Pages 222-255

   4. Health Care Provision: An Exploratory Analysis of Increase, Decline, Converging Trends and Driving Forces in Comparative Perspective

      • Ingalill Montanari, Kenneth Nelson

      Pages 256-270

   5. Conclusions

      • Emmanuele Pavolini, Ana M. Guillén

      Pages 271-277

5. Back Matter

   Pages 278-312

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This book analyses recent reform trends of European health care systems. Using eight European countries case studies it connects policy reforms with a healthcare quadrilemma, and compares how well these systems perform in terms of economic efficiency, medical achievements, social inequalities, and responsiveness to patients and workers.

• care
• efficiency
• Germany
• health
• health care
• healthcare

• Macerata University, Italy

  Emmanuele Pavolini

• University of Oviedo, Spain

  Ana M. Guillén

Paula Blomquist, Uppsala University, Sweden Seán Boyle, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Alban Davesne, Sciences Po, France Eduardo González Fidalgo, University of Oviedo, Spain Patrick Hassenteufel, University of Versailles , France Monika Ewa Kaminska, University of Bremen, Germany Tanja Klenk, University of Potsdam, Germany Ingalill Montanari, Stockholm University, Sweden Kenneth Nelson, Stockholm University, Sweden August Österle, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Bruno Palier, Sciences Po, France Giovanna Vicarelli, Politecnica delle Marche University, Italy Juan Ventura Victoria, University of Oviedo, Spain Ulrika Wildblat, Uppsala University, Sweden

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