Xenia Scheil-Adlung

Recent Health Policy Innovations in Social Security (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book concentrates on health insurance policy innovations in selected countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. In addition this book addresses recent institutional economic findings with regard to application of information technology in health insurance systems. Topics discussed include: new approaches in extending coverage in a health insurance system, confronting resource scarcity: innovative strategies, refining benefits to meet current needs, new institutional and administrative frameworks, and transformation through information technology systems. Many of the innovations presented here have already been integrated into existing reforms and the authors refer to concrete developments in individual countries and regions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351307420
• Artikelnr.: 56887213

Autorenporträt

Aviva Ron, Xenia Scheil-Adlung

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
1: Worldwide Innovations in Health Insurance Reform
2: New Approaches in Extending Health Care Coverage
2: New Strategies for the Formal Sector: Focus on Vietnam and Zimbabwe
3: Health Protection for Informal Sector Workers: New Approaches to a Long-Standing Problem
3: Confronting Resource Scarcity: Innovative Strategies
4: Managed Care in the United States: Its History, Forms, and Future
5: China: Innovations in Health Care Financing-Mixing Individual and Collective Responsibility
4: Refining Benefits to Meet Current Needs
6: Moving to Integrate Prevention, Curative Prevention, and Curation
7: New Benefits Dealing with Ageing Populations: Long-Term Care
8: Establishment of Long-Term Care Insurance Scheme in Japan
5: New Institutional and Administrative Frameworks
9: Should Health Care be Part of the Social Security System or a Separate Scheme?
10: Private Participation in Supporting the Social Contact in Health: New Insights from Institutional Economics
11: Mutual Benefit Societies: Solutions in Europe, North Africa, and Latin America
6: Transformation through Information Technology Systems
12: Possibilities Offered by New Information Technology
13: Building Up Telecommunications in the German Health Insurance Systems: Aims, Requirements, Barriers, Components
14: Data Protection and Data Security in Shared Care Information Systems