Unsustainable growth in healthcare expenditure demands effective cost-containment policies.
We review policy effectiveness using total payer expenditure as primary outcome measure…

This paper provides new evidence on the sources of differences in the degree of income‐related
inequalities in self‐assessed health in 13 European Union member states. It goes …

Ageing populations increase pressure on long-term care. Optimal resource allocation requires
an optimal mix of care services based on costs and benefits. Contrary to costs, benefits …

Background: Most of the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD) aim to ensure equitable access to health care. This is often …

This paper presents new international comparative evidence on the factors driving inequalities
in the use of GP and specialist services in 12 EU member states. The data are taken from …

This paper aims to add a more intuitive understanding to the concept of a concentration index
for measuring relative inequality with an application of health‐related measures by income…

BACKGROUND High-quality healthcare should be effective, safe and patient-centred. How
important patient-centredness is in relation to effectiveness of fertility care has never been …

New data (EU-SILC) allows the study of subjective unmet need for examination or treatment.
This paper presents new estimates of horizontal inequity in access to medical examination …

Policy Points Because bundled payments are relatively new and require a different type of
collaboration among payers, providers, and other actors, their design and implementation …

Containing health care costs has been a challenge for most OECD member states. We
classify 2250 cost containment policies in forty-one groups of policy options. This conceptual …