4.6. The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in the Spanish Health Care Market

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Rovira Forns
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Health Care Market ◽  
Spanish Health

scholarly journals Ineffable Cultures or Material Devices: What Valuation Studies can Learn from the Disappearance of Ensured Solidarity in a Health Care Market

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teun Zuiderent-Jerak ◽  
Stans Van Egmond
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Health Care Market ◽  
A Value ◽  
Dutch Health ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Regulated Competition ◽  
Made In

Valuation studies addresses how values are made in valuation practices. A next - or rather previous - question becomes: what then makes valuation practices? Two oppositional replies are starting to dominate how that question can be answered: a more materially oriented focus on devices of valuation and a more sociologically inclined focus on ineffable valuation cultures. The debate between proponents of both approaches may easily turn into the kind of leapfrog debates that have dominated many previous discussions on whether culture or materiality would play a decisive role in driving history. This paper explores a less repetitive reply. It does so by analyzing the puzzling case of the demise of solidarity as a core value within the recent Dutch health care system of regulated competition. While “solidarity among the insured” was both a strong cultural value within the Dutch welfare-based health system, and a value that was built into market devices by health economists, within a fairly short time “fairness” became of lesser importance than “competition”. This makes us call for a more historical, relational, and dynamic understanding of the role of economists, market devices, and of culture in valuation studies.

scholarly journals The role of the sickness funds in the Belgian health care market

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (10) ◽  
pp. 1483-1495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Nonneman ◽  
Eddy van Doorslaer
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Market

The Role of Public Policy in Health Care Market Change

1996 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Katz ◽  
Jack Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Health Care Market ◽  
Market Change

The Role Of Public Employers In A Changing Health Care Market

2003 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Watts ◽  
Jon B. Christianson ◽  
Lance Heineccius ◽  
Sally Trude
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Market

Management and Marketing in Health Institutions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andjela Jaksic-Stojanovic ◽  
Marija Jankovic
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Health Care Market ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Management Concept ◽  
Health Institutions

In the last decades radical changes in the health care market have happened. Customers continuously require a higher level of quality of service and they become more careful and demanding in the decision process, market intelligence is continuously growing, competition and quality of services are dramatically increasing, as well as the external influences of various lobbyists in many parts of the world. Also, it is important to mention the fact that there are many initiatives for change in many branches of health care delivery, as well as many innovative models for providing health services that change the traditional role of healthcare institutions. In these conditions in order to be competitive on the global market and to create satisfied and loyal consumers of health services, health institutions need to introduce a marketing management concept which is completely in accordance with actual trends on the global market as well as needs and demands of services consumers.

scholarly journals Revisiting the Most Informed Consumer of Surgical Services: The Physician-Patient

1993 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianfranco Domenighetti ◽  
Antoine Casabianca ◽  
Felix Gutzwiller ◽  
Sebastiano Martinoli
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
General Population ◽  
Surgical Procedures ◽  
Health Care Market ◽  
Financial Barriers ◽  
Surgical Services ◽  
Physician Patient ◽  
Informed Consumer ◽  
Role Of Information

AbstractLittle is known about the consumption of medical and surgical services by the most informed consumer in the health care market: the physician-patient. Such knowledge should be important for the understanding of the role of information on consumption, supplier-induced demand, the doctor-patient relationship, unnecessary medical services, and the adequacy of professional practices to the real health needs of the “ordinary patient.” We measured by questionnaire the standardized consumption of seven common surgical procedures. Except for appendectomy, the age- and sex-standardized consumption for each of the common surgical procedures was always significantly higher in the general population than for the “gold standard” of physician-patients. The data suggest that (a) contrary to prior research, doctors have much lower rates of surgery than does the general population; and (b) in a fee-for-services health care market without financial barriers to medical care, less-informed patients are greater consumers of common surgical procedures.

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