Governments are searching for ways to improve the equity, efficiency, effectiveness, and responsiveness of their health systems. In recent years there has been an acceptance of the important role of primary health care in helping to achieve these aims. However, there have been no systematic reviews on pr...
Over the last 20 years the level of private spending on health care has risen in many western European countries, leading to concern about its impact. The main channels of private spending are private health insurance policies and cost-sharing schemes in public health systems....
Ageing populations are characteristic of many countries. The pattern of disease at the end of life is changing and more people are living with serious chronic circulatory and respiratory diseases as well as with cancer. More people will need help at the end of life, in a social context of changing family...
Chronic diseases account for most of the burden of disease in the European Region. Although there are effective interventions for the management of various chronic conditions, there are also wide practice variations in the delivery of care. DMPs are one of the measures intended to address this situation....
Measurement is central to the concept of quality improvement; it provides a means to define what hospitals actually do, and to compare that with the original targets in order to identify opportunities for improvement....
There has been a dramatic upsurge of
entrepreneurialism in health care systems in
Europe, spurred by interests in better
efficiency and quality. The characteristics of
entrepreneurial behaviour include seeking
opportunity, promoting innovation, and
genuine accountability. However, experience
so far indic...
Baumann, Andrea;
Brien-Pallas, Linda O;
Armstrong-Stassen, Marjorie;
Blythe, Jennifer;
Bourbonnais, Ren e;
Cameron, Sheila;
Doran, Diane Irvine;
Kerr, Michael;
Hall, Linda McGillis;
Vzina, Michel;
Butt, Michelle;
Ryan, Leila.
The Canadian healthcare system is facinga nursing shortage that threatens patientcare. Many nurses, physically and mentallyexhausted, quit; employers can t fill thosevacancies, while paradoxically other nursescan t find secure jobs with hours that suitthem. Meanwhile, nursing schools can't keepup with th...
