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Financing Health Care in Europe: Institutional Arrangements Between Solidarity and Individual Responsibility

ContributorsSchulz-Weidner, Wolfgang (Speaker) / Lockhart, Carol Ann (Respondent) / Kirkman -Liff, Bradford L. (Respondent)
Created2008-02-29
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"Describing financing of health care systems in Europe with its now 27 member states is a challenge that requires the stating of criteria against which the different systems might be evaluated. The evaluation cannot be restricted to examining financial resources, but has to include at least the basic benefit performances…

"Describing financing of health care systems in Europe with its now 27 member states is a challenge that requires the stating of criteria against which the different systems might be evaluated. The evaluation cannot be restricted to examining financial resources, but has to include at least the basic benefit performances of health schemes (plans). The main countries to be examined here are France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and—despite the fact that it is not an EU member—Switzerland."
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Is There Still A Place For Traditional Values In Family Medicine? Confronting Managed Care

ContributorsWynn-Jones, John (Speaker) / Bradshaw, Mary Ellen (Respondent) / Weisbuch, Jonathan B. (Respondent)
Created2007-03-30
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“Today, I aim to discuss the importance of human contact and communication in the delivery of effective patient-centred health care. How can we as physicians, working in health systems that are becoming increasingly process driven and disease-focused, maintain human dignity and a patient sensitive approach? I will argue that traditional…

“Today, I aim to discuss the importance of human contact and communication in the delivery of effective patient-centred health care. How can we as physicians, working in health systems that are becoming increasingly process driven and disease-focused, maintain human dignity and a patient sensitive approach? I will argue that traditional values in family practice still offer us the opportunity to meet and focus on the modern needs of individuals and communities rather than on the needs of the health care industry.”