Universal Health Coverage in Croatia : Reforms to Revitalize Primary Health Care
This chapter describes and seeks to take stock of a cluster of supply-side reforms that aimed to revitalize what was described by the Croatian Public Health Institute as a passive and low-impact primary care system. The cluster of reforms, which in...
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okr-10986-291812021-05-25T09:10:02Z Universal Health Coverage in Croatia : Reforms to Revitalize Primary Health Care Vončina, Luka Arur, Aneesa Dorčić, Fedor Pezelj-Duliba, Dubravka UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM HEALTH INSURANCE HEALTH FINANCE PRIMARY HEALTHCARE HEALTH EXPENDITURE UNICO UHC This chapter describes and seeks to take stock of a cluster of supply-side reforms that aimed to revitalize what was described by the Croatian Public Health Institute as a passive and low-impact primary care system. The cluster of reforms, which include a mix of organizational, primary care provider payment and pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement reforms, and enabling information technology investments, were implemented starting in 2008. The chapter is organized as follows. Section two provides an overview of Croatia’s health system; section three provides an overview of Croatia’s Social Health Insurance System; section four discusses the financial sustainability challenges facing the Social Health Insurance System; section five presents the evolution and challenges of primary care in Croatia before 2008; section six discusses the primary care reforms implemented from 2008 onward and reviews the available evidence on its impact, including on how poorer regions and individuals may have benefited; and section seven concludes and outlines the way forward. 2018-01-18T20:15:58Z 2018-01-18T20:15:58Z 2018-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/773931516167775654/Universal-health-coverage-in-Croatia-reforms-to-revitalize-primary-health-care http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29181 English Universal Health Coverage Studies Series;No. 29 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper Europe and Central Asia Croatia |
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This chapter describes and seeks to take
stock of a cluster of supply-side reforms that aimed to
revitalize what was described by the Croatian Public Health
Institute as a passive and low-impact primary care system.
The cluster of reforms, which include a mix of
organizational, primary care provider payment and
pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement reforms, and
enabling information technology investments, were
implemented starting in 2008. The chapter is organized as
follows. Section two provides an overview of Croatia’s
health system; section three provides an overview of
Croatia’s Social Health Insurance System; section four
discusses the financial sustainability challenges facing the
Social Health Insurance System; section five presents the
evolution and challenges of primary care in Croatia before
2008; section six discusses the primary care reforms
implemented from 2008 onward and reviews the available
evidence on its impact, including on how poorer regions and
individuals may have benefited; and section seven concludes
and outlines the way forward. |
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Working Paper |
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Vončina, Luka Arur, Aneesa Dorčić, Fedor Pezelj-Duliba, Dubravka |
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Vončina, Luka Arur, Aneesa Dorčić, Fedor Pezelj-Duliba, Dubravka |
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Vončina, Luka |
| title |
Universal Health Coverage in Croatia : Reforms to Revitalize Primary Health Care |
| title_short |
Universal Health Coverage in Croatia : Reforms to Revitalize Primary Health Care |
| title_full |
Universal Health Coverage in Croatia : Reforms to Revitalize Primary Health Care |
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Universal Health Coverage in Croatia : Reforms to Revitalize Primary Health Care |
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Universal Health Coverage in Croatia : Reforms to Revitalize Primary Health Care |
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universal health coverage in croatia : reforms to revitalize primary health care |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2018 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/773931516167775654/Universal-health-coverage-in-Croatia-reforms-to-revitalize-primary-health-care http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29181 |
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