Regulating incentives: the past and present role of the state in health care systems

2002 ◽  
Vol 54 (11) ◽  
pp. 1677-1684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B Saltman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
The State ◽  
The Past ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Present Role

A Review of Data on the U.S. Health Sector Fall 2002

2003 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-192
Author(s):  
Ida Hellander
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
The State ◽  
Health Care Information ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Care Information ◽  
Care Health ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industries

This report presents information on the state of U.S. health care in mid-2002. It provides data on the uninsured and underinsured and their difficulties in finding health care; the increasing costs of care; health, social, and economic inequalities; and the role of corporate money in health care. Information is also presented on mental health care, the hospital and pharmaceutical industries, Medicare HMOs, and the state of nursing. The author then provides updates on Congressional activity and the results of polls on matters of health, and some data on health care systems elsewhere in the world.

Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Practice

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria I. Rudis ◽  
Ryan J. Attwood
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Emergency Department ◽  
Emergency Medicine ◽  
Clinical Pharmacist ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Pharmacy Practice ◽  
Health Care Team ◽  
The Past ◽  
Care Systems

Emergency medicine (EM) pharmacy practice has existed for over 30 years. In recent years, however, the specialty has grown significantly. A large number of health care systems have either a dedicated EM pharmacist or other clinical pharmacist presence in the Emergency department (ED). Over the past decade, the role of the EM pharmacist as a critical member of the health care team has expanded significantly and many innovative practices have evolved throughout the country. There is also some heterogeneity between different EM pharmacy practice sites. This article reviews the history and general concepts of EM pharmacy practice as well as illustrate some of the established benefits of an EM pharmacist.

A Review of Data on the Health Sector of the United States January 2002

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 579-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ida Hellander
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Maintenance Organizations ◽  
The State ◽  
Health Maintenance ◽  
Care Systems

This report presents data on the state of U.S. health care at the end of 2001. It provides information on access to health care, inequalities in incomes and medical care, the increasing costs of health care and health insurance, and the role of corporate money in the provision of health care and the development, marketing, and patenting of pharmaceuticals. The author also looks at the state of health maintenance organizations, the results of some recent surveys on physicians' and public opinion on managed care, and news about the nursing professions. Also provided is an update on Congressional activity on health care legislation, the role of health care industry money in politics, and some developments in health care systems elsewhere in the world.

Health Care

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Pestieau ◽  
Mathieu Lefebvre
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Medical Expenditure ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
The Public ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Care Systems

This chapter reviews the public health care systems as well as their challenges. It first shows how expenditure on health care has evolved in previous decades and deals with the reasons for the growth observed in almost every European country. It emphasizes the role of technological progress as a main explanatory factor of the increase in medical expenditure but also points to the challenges facing cost-containment policies. Especially, the main common features of health care systems in Europe, such as third-party payment, single provider approach and cost-based reimbursement are discussed. Finally the chapter shows that although inequalities in health exist in the population, health care systems are redistributive. Reforms are thus needed but the trade-off between budgetary efficiency and equity is difficult.

Confluences in Social Change: Cuban Women and Health Care

1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 398-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Olesen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
The Past ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
Promising Area ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Care Problems

A somewhat neglected though thoroughly promising area for the analysis of changing women's roles lies in the matter of health and health care systems within any society. This is nowhere more the case than in the instance of contemporary Cuban health care and the part that women in that society play in the health care systems as deflners of health care problems, recipients of care, and as those who deliver care to others. Both women's roles and health care in contemporary Cuba have dramatically altered over the past decade, thus yielding doubly rich insights, which reciprocally illuminate both issues.

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