Getting Better : Improving Health System Outcomes in Europe and Central Asia

This report is about how to improve health system outcomes in countries in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region. Long-term historical trends indicate substantial room for improvement, especially when ECA's health outcomes are compared to those of the Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom (EU-15). Instead of catching up with their Western neighbors, many countries in ECA have been falling behind. This report, which explores the development challenge facing health sectors in ECA, identifies three key agendas for achieving more rapid convergence with the world's best-performing health systems: (i) the first is the health agenda, in which the main imperative is to strengthen public health and primary care interventions to help achieve the 'cardiovascular revolution' that has taken place in the west in recent decades; (ii) the second is the financing agenda, in which growing demand for medical care must be satisfied without imposing an undue burden on households, by achieving better financial protection, or on government budgets, by ensuring a more efficient use of resources; and (iii) the third agenda relates to broader institutional arrangements. Here, a few key reform ingredients are identified, each of which is common to most advanced health systems but lacking in many ECA countries.

Medienart:

E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:

2013

Erschienen:

Washington, DC: World Bank ; 2013

Reihe:

Europe and Central Asia Reports

Sprache:

en_US

Beteiligte Personen:

Nguyen, Son Nam [VerfasserIn]
Smith, Owen [VerfasserIn]

Links:

hdl.handle.net [kostenfrei]

ISBN:

978-0-8213-9883-8

Themen:

Access to health care
Accountability mechanisms
Adult mortality
Adult population
Aging
Alcohol Consumption
Alcohol policies
Asphyxia
Basic human right
Basic needs
Budget caps
Cancer
Capitation
Cardiovascular Disease
Cardiovascular risk factors
Child health
Child mortality
Cholesterol
Chronic disease
Competition among insurers
Cost sharing
Deaths
Decision making
Delivery of Health Care
Demand for health
Demand for health care
Depression
Diet
Disability
Disease burden
Disease diagnosis
Disease management
Dissemination
Doctors
Drugs
Early childhood
Economic Perspectives
Economic Review
Economic growth
Elderly
Employment
Epidemic
Excess mortality
Existing resources
Fee for service
Fee-for-service
Fee-for-service methods
Fee-for-service payment
Females
Financial Protection
Financial consequences
Fixed costs
Genes
Global health
Gross domestic product
Gross national income
HIV/AIDS
Health Budgets
Health Care
Health Care Services
Health Financing
Health Insurance
Health Insurance Fund
Health Organization
Health Policy
Health Reform
Health Sector
Health Spending
Health System
Health Systems
Health Trends
Health care delivery
Health care providers
Health care provision
Health care systems
Health consequences
Health coverage
Health expenditure
Health expenditures
Health indicators
Health legislation
Health outcomes
Health professionals
Health programs
Health resources
Health risks
Health-financing
Healthy life
Heart attack
Heart disease
High Blood Pressure
Hospital
Hospital Waste
Hospital beds
Hospital capacity
Hospitalization
Hospitals
Household surveys
Human Development
Human health
Hypertension
Ill health
Illness
Immunization
Immunodeficiency
Important policy
Income
Income countries
Infant
Infant mortality
Infectious diseases
Informal Payments
Informal sector
Injuries
Insurance markets
Intervention
Lack of knowledge
Legal status
Level of development
Life Expectancy
Life Expectancy Gains
Life expectancy at birth
Life-saving care
Living Standards
Longevity
MRI
Magnetic resonance imaging
Market failures
Material resources
Maternal and child health
Maternal mortality
Medical Care
Medical Insurance
Medical bills
Medical staff
Medical systems
Medical technologies
Medical technology
Mental
Mental Health
Migration
Millennium Development Goal
Millennium Development Goals
Modern medicine
Moral hazard
Morbidity
Mortality
Multiple insurers
National governments
National health
National health service
Neonatal care
Neonatal mortality
Nutrition
Pandemic
Patient
Patient Choice
Patient cost
Patients
Pensions
Personal behavior
Pharmaceutical Spending
Pharmaceuticals
Physicians
Pneumonia
Pocket Payments
Pocket payments for health care
Policy Response
Policy makers
Prevalence
Primary Care
Primary health care
Progress
Prostate
Provider payment
Public health
Public opinion
Purchasing power
Purchasing power parity
Quality Assurance
Quality of Care
Quality of Life
Reform of health systems
Respect
Restaurants
Risk Factors
Risk factor
Safety Net
Safety nets
Screening
Service delivery
Service provision
Smokers
Smoking
Social health insurance
Social sectors
Socioeconomic status
Suicide
Syndrome
TB
Tobacco Taxation
Treatment
Tuberculosis
Under-five mortality
Use of resources
Vaccinations
Vaccines
Violence
Waste
World Health Organization

Anmerkungen:

Central Asia

Europe

Europe and Central Asia

Umfang:

1 Online-Ressource

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

175927643X