In Germany, there are about 2100 hospitals providing care for about 17 million inpatient cases per year.3 Hospitals are financed through a system of ‘dual financing’, which means that they receive funds from two different sources: infrastructure investments are covered directly by tax-funded state budgets, whereas operating costs are paid mostly by sickness funds and private health insurers.4 T...

The Psychiatric Reform progressively seeks to shift the focus of hospital care territorial networks. objective this study was understand experience people in severe psychic suffering about hospitalization and post- a psychiatric hospital. A qualitative conducted, using Focal Life History method, with interviews 5 former inmates extinct Franco da Rocha Hospital (HPFR). Through Content Analysis T...

This analysis of the Belarusian health system reviews the developments in organization and governance, health financing, healthcare provision, health reforms and health system performance since 2008. Despite considerable change since independence, Belarus retains a commitment to the principle of universal access to health care, provided free at the point of use through predominantly state-owned...

This paper explores the relationship between doctor managers and senior health service administrators (CEOs or General Managers) within the context of Australian health reform. Government funding for health services has become increasingly driven by government defined measurable performance targets and resources. These policy changes have implications for hospitals to be managed more cost effec...

Like many jurisdictions, mental health policy-making in Ontario, Canada, has a long history of frustrated attempts to move from a hospital and physician-based tradition to a coordinated system with greater emphasis on community-based mental health care. This study examines policy legacies associated with the introduction of psychiatric hospitals in the 1850s and of public health insurance (medi...

Abstract Introduction: One of the goals of the health system is to ensure that people are healthy. Reaching this goal is only possible through the provision of the proper services. The satisfaction of patients with the quality of health care services is used as a questionare to investigate the effectiveness of hospital services concerning consumption management and patient care quality. It ass...