Challenges in health care financing and provision

The Nordic Economic Policy review has produced a special issue about challenges in health care financing and provision. Articles include:

• Ageing populations: more care or just later care?
• Lifestyle, health and costs - what does available evidence suggest?
• The economics of long-term care: a survey
• The role of primary health care in controlling the cost of specialist health care
• Payments in support of effective primary care for chronic conditions
• An economic assessment of price rationing versus non-price rationing of health care
• Should pharmaceutical costs be curbed?
• Productivity differences in Nordic hospitals: Can we learn from Finland?

Access the full issue here.

Delivering Dilnot: paying for elderly care

"The Government needs to be clear in its message that a reformed capped funding system is the most appropriate way of dealing with a broken social care system, a crisis that has Delivering Dilnot lasted over ten years."

Delivering Dilnot: paying for elderly care
P. Burstow (editor)
CentreForum
January 2013

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The match between institutional elderly care management research and management challenges

"Institutional care management research needs to focus more on challenges in integrated care, productivity, ICT and division of labor."

The match between institutional elderly care management research and management challenges - a systematic literature review
K Kokkonen, S Rissanen, A Hujala
Health Research Policy and Systems, 2012, 10:35

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The Prime Minister's challenge on dementia

"Our ambition is to support wider society to make the change to enable people who have dementia to be able to confidently go about their daily lives safely and free from stigma."

The Prime Minister's challenge on dementia: delivering major improvements in dementia care and research by 2015: a report on progress
Department of Health
November 2012

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Caring for our future: what service users say

"The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) commissioned this paper as part of its programme on paying for long-term care, which aims to influence the funding and creation of a better system for adult social care in the UK."

Caring for our future: what service users say
P Beresford, E Andrews
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
March 2012

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Long-term care: "Who cares?"

"This report consists of two sections. The first is an analysis by the Chartered Insurance Institute that identifies the key issues and sets out their implications. The second section comprises a set of contributions from key players in the long-term care debate."

Who cares? The implications of a new partnership to fund long-term care
Chartered Insurance Institute
September 2011

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