Healthcare and Elderly Care in Europe

Thomas Bahle, Mareike Ariaans, Katharina Koch and Claus Wendt

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Abstract: Given growing caseloads, limited funding and staff shortages, the need for coordination in healthcare and elderly care is at an all-time high. This timely book conducts a cross-national analysis of coordination problems in healthcare and long-term care systems and provides novel insights on how to improve the lives of the elderly.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
ISBN: 9781802204063
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Healthcare and elderly care in Europe: an introduction , pp 1-8

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Ch 2 Theory: institutions and actors , pp 9-20

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Ch 3 Data and methods: interviews with stakeholder organizations , pp 21-26

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Ch 4 Germany: social insurance with a divide between healthcare and long-term care , pp 27-45

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Ch 5 The Netherlands: institutional fragmentation in a patient-centered system , pp 46-61

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Ch 6 Sweden: regional and local autonomy , pp 62-83

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Ch 7 Switzerland: merits and downsides of medical dominance , pp 84-100

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Ch 8 Professional-level problems: staff shortage, divided responsibilities, or missing communication? , pp 101-121

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Ch 9 System-level coordination problems: impact of the institutional structure , pp 122-137

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Ch 10 Conclusion: coordination requires financing reform, institutionalization, and academization , pp 138-153

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