Assessment and Analysis of Healthcare Systems
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 16375
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Healthcare systems take many different forms depending on the country. In some countries, the healthcare system is publicly financed, such as in many European countries. A single insurance company is at the heart of the health system in countries such as France, while the system can be built mostly around public healthcare providers, as in the UK. In some countries, private insurers compete with each other by ensuring standard minimum care for all. How do these differences affect access to care for patients and their care? Healthcare providers can be for-profit, non-profit or public. What can explain these differences between countries and the impact on the efficiency of each health system? The introduction of DRG-based pricing has allowed for competition between institutions. At the same time, the health crisis has led to mergers between institutions and strengthened health groups. How does this affect the supply of care and the demand for care? Above all, healthcare systems have to tackle common challenges: the demographic change of the population, a growing share of the population affected by chronic disease, and the increased role of prevention, which has been revealed more acutely with the COVID-19 health crisis, as well as the rapid evolution of innovations and their associated costs in patient care and the role of digital health as an answer to the lack of healthcare supply.
All these questions mean that there is a great variety of research topics in the field of healthcare systems. This Special Issue is open to relevant research on healthcare systems. The keywords listed below outline some of the possible areas of interest.
Dr. Carine Milcent
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Providers’ ownership
- change in demand
- inequality and evolution
- DRG and reimbursement systems
- healthcare access
- geographic and healthcare systems
- competition and mergers
- prevention and public health
- health electronic record and medical informatics
- insurance and insurers
- healthcare management
- artificial intelligence
- data analytics
- data science
- database management COVID-19
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