Health Care Reform - Organization & administration
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Health reform in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Oct 2009 In the two decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, former communist countries in Europe have pursued wide-ranging changes to their health systems. We describe three key aspects of these changes-an almost universal switch to health insurance ... Read more...

Why health reform?

5 Sep 2009 Traditional health care is fragmented, marred by quality and safety defects, with a failure to provide evidence-based care, and huge and unjustifiable variations in practice. There is abundant evidence that traditional means of delivering health ... Read more...

Equity, waiting times, and NHS reforms: retrospective study.

Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To determine whether observable changes in waiting times occurred for certain key elective procedures between 1997 and 2007 in the English National Health Service and to analyse the distribution of those changes between socioeconomic ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Health Care Reform - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• European health systems face scrutiny in US debate. 22 Oct 2009
• Equity and NHS reforms. What about independent sector treatment centres? 19 Oct 2009
• Margaret Allen: a force in humanising the American healthcare system. Interview by Zosia Kmietowicz. 4 Oct 2009
• Health reform in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Oct 2009
• The crisis of public management. 29 Sep 2009
• Research and reform: toward a high-value health system. 29 Sep 2009
• Emergency care in the USA. 17 Sep 2009
• Bending the cost curve: a critical component of health care reform. 14 Sep 2009
• Why health reform? 5 Sep 2009
• Hoosen Coovadia: an icon of South African health. Interview by Clare Kapp. 3 Sep 2009
• Aaron Motsoaledi: South African minister of health. Interview by Clare Kapp. 3 Sep 2009
• Organ donation in China. 3 Sep 2009
• South Africa steps up. 3 Sep 2009
• Equity, waiting times, and NHS reforms: retrospective study. Sep 2009
• Navigating health care reform. 30 Aug 2009
• Reforming cardiovascular care: quality measurement and improvement, and pay-for-performance. 30 Aug 2009
• Physician alignment. 30 Aug 2009
• Dr. Starfield brings it home. 30 Aug 2009
• Dr. Starfield brings it home. 30 Aug 2009
• Time out. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Health Care Reform'

Definition: Innovation and improvement of the health care system by reappraisal, amendment of services, and removal of faults and abuses in providing and distributing health services to patients. It includes a re-alignment of health services and health insurance to maximum demographic elements (the unemployed, indigent, uninsured, elderly, inner cities, rural areas) with reference to coverage, hospitalization, pricing and cost containment, insurers' and employers' costs, pre-existing medical conditions, prescribed drugs, equipment, and services.

Descriptor UI: D018166

Alternative terms: Health Care Reform; Health Care Reforms; Reform, Health Care; Reforms, Health Care; Healthcare Reform; Healthcare Reforms; Reform, Healthcare; Reforms, Healthcare;

Related Mesh Headings: Single-Payer System;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; methods;

Tree Number: I01.880.604.825.608.400.285; N03.349.285; N03.706.825.608.428.285; N04.590.374.285; N05.300.380;

History Note: 94

Technical Notes: not restricted to US; specify state or country