[EQ] Private Financing and High-level Functioning: Some International Approaches to Health Reform

Private Financing and High-level Functioning: Some International Approaches to Health Reform

The Alliance for Health Reform - April 2008

Website: http://www.allhealth.org/briefing_detail.asp?bi=126

 

“…..While the United States delivers some of the best medical care in the world, there are major inefficiencies: High rates of medical errors, millions without health insurance coverage, and lower utilization of advanced health information technology than most western European nations. Costs are the highest anywhere, by any measure.

What can we learn about coverage patterns and cost in other systems that might help inform our choices? What traits in other countries’ delivery systems might be instructive? Are lessons from abroad useful to our efforts to improve efficiency and improve the quality of health care in the United States? What are the respective roles of government and the private market in other systems? ….”

Videos:

 Reinhard Busse, Berlin University of Technology, Speaker
 Stuart Butler, The Heritage Foundation, Speaker
 Patricia Danzon, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Speaker
 Robin Osborn, The Commonwealth Fund, Speaker
 Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Speaker

Transcript – PDF: Private Financing and High-level Functioning: Some International Approaches to Health Reform

Full Webcast/Podcast: http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=2572

 

Speakers presentations:

Van de Ven Presentation (PowerPoint)
Busse Presentation (PowerPoint)
Osborn Presentation (PowerPoint)

 

Profiles of German and Dutch Health Care Systems (Adobe Acrobat PDF), The Commonwealth Fund, 4/11/2008

 

A Comparative Analysis of Avoidable Mortality in Three Nations and Their World Cities
European Journal of Public Health, 3/1/2008
Access to timely and effective medical services can reduce rates of premature mortality attributed to certain conditions.
We investigate rates of total and avoidable mortality (AM) and the percentage of avoidable deaths in France, England
and Wales and the United States, three wealthy nations with different health systems, and in the urban cores of their world cities,
Paris, Inner London and Manhattan.
We examine the association between AM and an income-related variable among neighborhoods of the three cities.

 

 

 

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