This paper describes a comparative study between free choice of hospital in Denmark and Norway. The starting point for the study is that the Scandinavian health care system has historically been dominated by a decentralized welfare state tradition. There has been a strong emphasis on equity and regional democratic control through the county institutions. To introduce free choice of hospital in this type of system is a challenge for a number of existing perceptions, structures and procedures in the Scandinavian system. From a system level perspective the planning capacity and the strong link between a given regional population and chosen level of public service are weakened. From a user perspective the relationship between the individual cit...
The paper elaborates on the implementation of the Directive on patients’ rights in cross-border heal...
Although choice may be seen as an end in itself, the papers included in this special issue of Health...
ABSTRACT. This article is an attempt to evaluate the Oregon plan from the per-spective of a Scandina...
This paper describes a comparative study between free choice of hospital in Denmark and Norway. The ...
In this paper we present alternatives for describing and explaining the developments of Nordic healt...
Background: During 2001-2005, a number of radical legislative moves expanded patient choice in Norwa...
AbstractIn several European countries, including Norway, polices to increase patient choice of hospi...
This paper discusses the development of the Norwegian and Swedish hospital systems from a historical...
In several European countries, including Norway, polices to increase patient choice of hospital prov...
The introduction in 2010 of the Freedom of Choice Act represents one of the most far-reaching reform...
The onset of the financial crisis has forced many European governments into reforming public service...
This paper describes some characteristic aspects of the Swedish health care model which can explain ...
BACKGROUND Priority setting in population health is increasingly based on explicitly formulated valu...
User choice, which is part of NPM, has become a common steering model in social welfare services. Ho...
Under Norway's prospective payment system, which was in existence from 1972 to 1980, hospital costs ...
The paper elaborates on the implementation of the Directive on patients’ rights in cross-border heal...
Although choice may be seen as an end in itself, the papers included in this special issue of Health...
ABSTRACT. This article is an attempt to evaluate the Oregon plan from the per-spective of a Scandina...
This paper describes a comparative study between free choice of hospital in Denmark and Norway. The ...
In this paper we present alternatives for describing and explaining the developments of Nordic healt...
Background: During 2001-2005, a number of radical legislative moves expanded patient choice in Norwa...
AbstractIn several European countries, including Norway, polices to increase patient choice of hospi...
This paper discusses the development of the Norwegian and Swedish hospital systems from a historical...
In several European countries, including Norway, polices to increase patient choice of hospital prov...
The introduction in 2010 of the Freedom of Choice Act represents one of the most far-reaching reform...
The onset of the financial crisis has forced many European governments into reforming public service...
This paper describes some characteristic aspects of the Swedish health care model which can explain ...
BACKGROUND Priority setting in population health is increasingly based on explicitly formulated valu...
User choice, which is part of NPM, has become a common steering model in social welfare services. Ho...
Under Norway's prospective payment system, which was in existence from 1972 to 1980, hospital costs ...
The paper elaborates on the implementation of the Directive on patients’ rights in cross-border heal...
Although choice may be seen as an end in itself, the papers included in this special issue of Health...
ABSTRACT. This article is an attempt to evaluate the Oregon plan from the per-spective of a Scandina...