Canadian health system reforms: lessons for Australia?

Mongolia's system-wide health reforms: lessons for other developing countries.

Mongolia is a poor country that lost 30% of its GDP when the Soviet Bloc collapsed in 1990. Its health care system had the typical weaknesses of centrally planned economies--quantity rather than quality, excessive medical specialisation, dominance of the hospital sector, weak policy and management capabilities, little community participation in decision making, and so on. This paper describes M...

General practice and the New Zealand health reforms – lessons for Australia?

New Zealand's health sector has undergone three significant restructures within 10 years. The most recent has involved a Primary Health Care Strategy, launched in 2001. Primary Health Organisations (PHOs), administered by 21 District Health Boards, are the local structures for implementing the Primary Health Care Strategy. Ninety-three percent of the New Zealand population is now enrolled withi...

Lessons from the past decade for future health reforms.

Lessons for future health care reforms in England

As the National Health Service (NHS) enters a new decade in 2011, it faces one of its toughest financial periods ever. Despite NHS spending being protected from cuts, the equivalent of 0 per cent real growth (or thereabouts after adjusting for inflation) will mean the need to make efficiency savings of around 4 per cent per annum in order to close the estimated £20 billion productivity gap (App...

Proposed Health Care System Reforms

Health care system reform covers a disparate and controversial array of issues, a characteristic apparent in the related literature. The literature on proposed system reforms appears to be strongly driven by the actual public policy environment in Washington. Many articles discussing tax credits and reform proposals constructed using tax credits were published during the time when the Bush Admi...