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... Sector Reform in Brazil: A Case Study of Inequality. International Journal of Health Services 30 : 129 -162. Arretche, M. 2004 . Can Federal States Concentrate Authority? Inter-governmental Relations and Public Policy in Brazil . Paper presented at the Twenty-Fifth International Congress...

...Konstantina Davaki; Elias Mossialos Changes in the health care sector in Greece since the pathbreaking introduction of the National Health System (NHS) in 1983 have been sluggish. Twenty years after its inception and a series of attempts to reform it, the NHS remains centralized, fragmented...

...Grant Reeher Although the nation failed during the past decade to enact large-scale,structural change in government health policy, it has seen health care in the private sector remodeled dramatically during the same period. In this article I argue that a new round of equally significant changes...

... under the decentralization theme. Its object in developing this theme is to escape some of the sterility of the competition-versus-regulation debate and to show the historical and ethical significance of the major changes that are under way in the health care sector today. Copyright © 1986 by Duke...

... system of care. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 References Acton , J. P. 1976 . Demand for Health Care Among the Urban Poor, with Special Attention to the Role of Time. In The Role of Health Insurance in the Health Services Sector, ed. R. Rossett. New York: National Bureau...

...David S. Salkever; Robert L. Seidman Copyright © 1978 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1978 Commentary On Viewing the Medical Sector as a Market David S. Salkever and Robert L. Seidman, The Johns Hopkins University The preceding...

...Barnett R. Parker Policy problems in the health and public sectors are quickly assuming a new level of complexity. Thus, the health/public sector analyst is being confronted with the task of identifying, formulating, evaluating, and making choices among larger and more complicated sets of decision...

..., and impacts of ACA coverage expansions on individual and aggregate well-being must incorporate systematic study of this complex public–private sector ecosystem. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Freely available online through the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law open access option...

...William D. White Economic theories suggest that the introduction of regulation can be analyzed in terms of the magnitude and distribution of its economic impact. This article uses this approach to consider the introduction of licensure in the health sector for clinical laboratory personnel...

...Ariadna García-Prado; Paula González This article presents a thorough analysis of dual practice among physicians who work in both the public and private sectors. A conceptual framework is presented to help the reader understand dual practice and the contexts where it takes place. The article...

... Health Plan, a health maintenance organization evolving from the Key Plan, are discussed in light of this experience. Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 Commentary Prospects for the Contra Costa Health Plan, A Public Sector Health Maintenance...

... that such challenges will succeed at either the state or federal level. Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 Competition in the Health Sector: A Historical Perspective Ronald C. Lippincott, Wright State University, and James W. Begun, Cornell...

..., demonstrate that public programs are subsidized by the private sector. This differential is to be expected, whether hospitals are considered to be monopolistic profit maximizers or controlled by physicians. While cost-based hospital reimbursement may be dynamically inefficient, it is shown to have certain...

...Robert E. Schlenker; Nancy H. Shanks This paper reviews the historical trends in the regulatory and competitive approaches to containment of health care costs, covering efforts in both public and private sectors. The current interest in the potential of private-sector initiatives to stimulate...

...Clark C. Havighurst The Council on Wage and Price Stability recently has discovered evidence suggesting “an unacknowledged potential of the private sector to exert influence and control in the area of health care cost inflation.” This article examines the limitations on private-sector cost-control...

... of the health care field. To avoid serious errors and confusion, drug abuse health policies must recognize the very different needs of the public and private sectors. The public sector, where poor addicts receive drug treatment provided or purchased by the government, has long suffered from chronically...

... hospitals, explains the system's core characteristics: universal access, free choice, high quality, and a weak capacity for regulation. The dual architecture of this unique system leads to different reform strategies and outcomes in its two main parts. While the state has leverage in the hospital sector...

...J. Rogers Hollingsworth; Ellen Jane Hollingsworth This study confronts the following questions: what are the conditions under which a society decides to do things in the public and voluntary nonprofit sectors, and in what ways do organizations behave differently, depending on whether...

...Adam Oliver; Elias Mossialos In this article we outline the different schools of new institutionalism and a few other selected political science theories. Moreover, we relate the insights offered by a series of analyses of health sector change in a large number of European countries over the past...