The Public–Private Pendulum — Patient Choice and Equity in Sweden  

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Anell, Anders

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 372 no. 01 (Jan. 2015), page 1-4.

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Decision making in Swedish health care is decentralized — 21 elected county councils own and operate almost all hospitals and a majority of primary care facilities, and most physicians are salaried employees of these institutions. There is universal access to high-quality medical services for all citizens at reasonable expenditure levels (see tableSelected Characteristics of the Health Care System and Health Outcomes in Sweden. and case histories). But the picture is more nuanced than those general facts might imply. Waiting times for consultations and treatment and lack of patient-centeredness are persistent problems, and services are not always distributed equitably, to name a few common concerns.1 The types of organizational reforms undertaken to address such problems depend in part on the ideologies of both the national and local governments — a factor that has been most evident in recent policies related to patient choice and the private provision of care.

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