Welfare, Choice and Solidarity in Transition - Reforming the Health Sector in Eastern Europe (Paperback)

Reform of the welfare sector is an important yet difficult challenge for all countries in transition from socialist central planning to market-oriented democracies. Here a scholar of the economics of socialism and post-socialist transition and a health economist take on this challenge. This 2001 book offers health sector reform recommendations for ten countries of Eastern Europe, drawn consistently from a set of explicit guiding principles. After discussing sector-specific characteristics, lessons of international experience, and the main set of initial conditions, the authors advocate reforms based on organized public financing for basic care, private financing for supplementary care, pluralistic delivery of services, and managed competition. Policymakers need to achieve a balance, both assuring social solidarity through universal access to basic health services and expanding individual choice and responsibility through voluntary supplemental insurance. The authors also consider the problems that undermine effectiveness of market-based competition in the health sector.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Federico Caffe Lectures
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	November 2010
Authors:	Janos Kornai • Karen Eggleston (Global Fellow)
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	380
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-15937-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Welfare & benefit systems Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy
LSN:	0-521-15937-7
Barcode:	9780521159371

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