IHC

An 'On-call' Facility for International Healthcare Comparisons

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Themes and publications

We have recently worked on the following themes*:

Access to generalist and specialist care outside hospital

Health care capacity planning: a review of international experience Reimbursing highly specialised hospital services: the experience of activity-based funding in eight countries

The systematic use of cost-effectiveness criteria to inform reviews of publicly-funded benefits packages

The regulation of competition between publicly-financed hospitals

A review of the role and responsibilities of national ministries of health in five countries

Decision-making in health care: Roles and responsibilities at local, regional and national level

Learning from other countries: an on-call facility for health care policy

Paying for drugs in the statutory system

Coverage of publicly-funded dental services