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PRIMARY CARE IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT
ORGANIZATIONAL REFORM IN EUROPEAN PRIMARY CARE
Richard Saltman, Ana Rico and Wienke Boerma (eds)
• What is the best way to structure primary care services?
• How can coordination between primary care and other parts of health care systems
be improved?
• How should new technologies be integrated into primary care?
There is considerable agreement among national policy makers across Europe that, in
principle, primary care should be the linchpin of a well-designed health care system.
This agreement, however, does not carry over into the organizational mechanisms best
suited to pursuing or achieving this common objective. Across western, central and
eastern Europe, primary care is delivered through a wide range of institutional, financial,
professional and clinical configurations. This book is a study of the reforms of primary
care in Europe as well as their impacts on the broader co-ordination mechanisms within
European health care systems. It also provides suggestions for effective strategies for
future improvement in health care system reform.
Primary Care in the Driver’s Seat is key reading for students studying health policy, health
economics, public policy and management, as well as health managers and policy
makers.
Contributors
Richard Baker; Sven-Eric Bergman; Wienke Boerma; Mats Brommels; Michael Calnan;
Diana Delnoij; Anna Dixon; Carl-Ardy Dubois; Joan Gené Badia; Bernhard Gibis; Stefan
Greß; Peter Groenewegen; Jan Heyrman; Jack Hutten; Michael Kidd; Mårten Kvist;
Miranda Laurant; Margus Lember; Martin Marshall; Alison McCallum; Toomas Palu; Ana
Rico; Ray Robinson; Valentin Rusovich; Richard B. Saltman; Anthony Scott; Rod Sheaff;
Igor Svab; Bonnie Sibbald; Hrvoje Tiljak; Andrija Štampar; Michel Wensing.
Contents
List of tables – List of boxes – List of figures – List of contributors – Series editors’ introduction
– Foreword – Acknowledgements – Part one: Assessing the strategic landscape –
Coordination and integration in European primary care – Mapping primary care across
Europe – Changing conditions for structural reform in primary care – Drawing the strands
together: primary care in perspective – Part two: Changing institutional arrangements –
The challenge of coordination: The role of primary care professionals in promoting
integration across the interface – The impact of primary care purchasing in Europe: A
comparative case study of primary care reform – The evolving public-private mix – Part
three: Changing working arrangements – Changing task profiles – Changing professional
roles in primary care education – Managing primary care behaviour through payment
systems and financial incentives – Part four: Changing quality standards – Improving the
quality and performance of primary care – The role of new information and communication
technologies in primary care – Index.
2005 280pp
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