European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies - Series page

pp iii-iv

Paying for Health - Title page

pp v-v

Copyright page

pp vi-vi

Frontispiece

pp vii-viii

Contents

pp ix-xi

Figures

pp xii-xv

Tables

pp xvi-xvii

Boxes

pp xviii-xix

Contributors

pp xx-xxii

Abbreviations

pp xxiii-xxvi

Foreword

pp xxvii-xxix

Reference Series Foreword

pp xxx-xxxi

Acknowledgements

pp xxxii-xxxii

Executive summary

pp xxxiii-lii

Introduction

pp 1-26

Section 1 - Revenue raising

pp 27-134

1.1 - General taxation and social health insurance

pp 29-62

1.2 - Community-based health insurance

pp 63-90

1.3 - Voluntary health insurance

pp 91-115

1.4 - Official development assistance for health

pp 116-134

Section 2 - Pooling resources and defining benefits

pp 135-282

2.1 - Approaches to risk pooling

pp 137-164

2.2 - Setting a health benefits package

pp 165-195

2.3 - Decommissioning/disinvestment: reducing the provision of low-value care

pp 196-223

2.4 - User charges

pp 224-244

2.5 - Long-term care: its financing and provision

pp 245-282

Section 3 - Commissioning and purchasing

pp 283-673

3.1 - Paying for primary care

pp 285-319

3.2 - Methods for paying hospitals

pp 320-359