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, Fran...
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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 growth Economic Perspectives Economic Review elderly employment epidemic excess mortality existing resources fee for service fee-for-service fee-for-service methods fee-for-service payment Females financial consequences Financial Protection fixed costs genes global health gross domestic product gross national income Health Budgets Health Care health care delivery health care providers health care provision Health Care Services health care systems health consequences health coverage health expenditure health expenditures Health Financing health indicators Health Insurance Health Insurance Fund health legislation Health Organization health outcomes Health Policy health professionals health programs Health Reform health resources health risks Health Sector Health Spending Health System Health Systems Health Trends health-financing healthy life heart attack heart disease High Blood Pressure HIV/AIDS Hospital hospital beds hospital capacity Hospital Waste 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 at birth Life Expectancy Gains life-saving care Living Standards longevity magnetic resonance imaging market failures material resources maternal and child health maternal mortality medical bills Medical Care Medical Insurance medical staff medical systems medical technologies Medical technology Mental Mental Health migration Millennium Development Goal Millennium Development Goals modern medicine moral hazard Morbidity mortality MRI 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 makers Policy Response 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 factor Risk Factors 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 Smith, Owen Nguyen, Son Nam Getting Better : Improving Health System Outcomes in Europe and Central Asia |
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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. |
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Getting Better : Improving Health System Outcomes in Europe and Central Asia |
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Getting Better : Improving Health System Outcomes in Europe and Central Asia |
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Getting Better : Improving Health System Outcomes in Europe and Central Asia |
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okr-10986-138322021-04-23T14:03:21Z Getting Better : Improving Health System Outcomes in Europe and Central Asia Smith, Owen Nguyen, Son Nam 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 growth Economic Perspectives Economic Review elderly employment epidemic excess mortality existing resources fee for service fee-for-service fee-for-service methods fee-for-service payment Females financial consequences Financial Protection fixed costs genes global health gross domestic product gross national income Health Budgets Health Care health care delivery health care providers health care provision Health Care Services health care systems health consequences health coverage health expenditure health expenditures Health Financing health indicators Health Insurance Health Insurance Fund health legislation Health Organization health outcomes Health Policy health professionals health programs Health Reform health resources health risks Health Sector Health Spending Health System Health Systems Health Trends health-financing healthy life heart attack heart disease High Blood Pressure HIV/AIDS Hospital hospital beds hospital capacity Hospital Waste 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 at birth Life Expectancy Gains life-saving care Living Standards longevity magnetic resonance imaging market failures material resources maternal and child health maternal mortality medical bills Medical Care Medical Insurance medical staff medical systems medical technologies Medical technology Mental Mental Health migration Millennium Development Goal Millennium Development Goals modern medicine moral hazard Morbidity mortality MRI 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 makers Policy Response 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 factor Risk Factors 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 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. 2013-06-11T16:39:59Z 2013-06-11T16:39:59Z 2013-06-10 978-0-8213-9883-8 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13832 en_US Europe and Central Asia Reports; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research :: Publication Publications & Research Europe and Central Asia Europe Central Asia Europe and Central Asia |