Health policy making under information constraints: An evaluation of the policy responses to the economic crisis in Greece

Ilias Goranitis, Olga Siskou and Lycourgos Liaropoulos

Health Policy, 2014, vol. 117, issue 3, 279-284

Abstract: Cost consolidation in the highly fragmented and inefficient Greek health care system was necessary. However, policies introduced were partly formed in a context of insufficient information. Expenditure data from a consumption point of view were lacking and the depth of the political and structural problems was of unknown magnitude to the supervisory authorities.

Keywords: Economic crisis; Austerity; Health reforms; System of health accounts (SHA); Greece (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2014.07.012

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