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Availability: Available
Publication date: 07 Dec 2005
Language: English
Pages: 110
Tables: 1
Charts: 30
ISBN: 9789264013827
OECD Code: 812005191P1
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This comprehensive review of the Finnish health care system evaluates financing, service provision, investment, governance, and insurance/payment schemes. Recent reforms are assessed and longer-term challenges such as those posed by technological change, a rapidly ageing population, and rising consumer expectations are evaluated. The review includes a series of recommendations.
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Table of contents:
Executive Summary
Resume (In French)
Introduction
Chapter 1. Organisation of the Finnish Health Care System
-Introduction
-Sources of Finance
-Provision of Services
-Payment of Providers
-Investment in Human Resources
-Governance
-Patient Insurance
Chapter 2. The Performance of the Finnish Health System and its Determinants
-Introduction
-Health Status
-Macroeconomic Efficiency (Financial Sustainability)
-Microeconomic Efficiency (Value for Money)
-Equity in the Financing and Use of Health Care
-The Bottom Line
Chapter 3. Recent Reforms to the Finnish Health Care System
-The "Health 2015" Public Health Programme
-The SOMERA Commission
-The National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
-Reforms to the Regulation of Medicine
-Human Resources
-Waiting Times
-Electronic Patient Records
-Concentration of Public Laboratory and Imaging Services
-Long-Term Care Vouchers and Proposals to Reform the System of Support for Informal Carers
-Local Reforms
-The Project to Restructure Municipalities and Services
-Commentary
Chapter 4. Assessment and Recommendations
-Macroeconomic Efficiency (Sustainability)
-Microeconomic Efficiency (Value for Money)
-Equity in the Financing and Use of Health Care
-Conclusions
References
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