Download or read book Trends in Health Status Services and Finance The transition in Central and Eastern Europe written by Ellen Goldstein and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation World Bank Technical Paper No. 341. This cross-national study provides empirical evidence of some of the trends in health status, health services, and health care financing that have occurred in countries undergoing economic transition in Central and Eastern Europe. Evidence shows that the transition has led to a significant reduction in resources devoted to health care in many of these countries. Moreover, in those that have increased health care spending, the resources have either not been properly mobilized or have not led to improved quality in care. Also available: "Trends in Health Status, Services, and Finance: The Transition in Central and Eastern Europe". Volume II. World Bank Technical Paper No. 348. January 1997. 152 pages. Stock no. 13828 (ISBN 0-8213-3828-5).
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Download or read book Trends in Health Status Services and Finance without special title written by Ellen Goldstein and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Technical Paper No. 341. This cross-national study provides empirical evidence of some of the trends in health status, health services, and health care financing that have occurred in countries undergoing economic transition in Central and Eastern Europe. Evidence shows that the transition has led to a significant reduction in resources devoted to health care in many of these countries. Moreover, in those that have increased health care spending, the resources have either not been properly mobilized or have not led to improved quality in care. Also available: "Trends in Health Status, Services, and Finance: The Transition in Central and Eastern Europe". Volume II. World Bank Technical Paper No. 348. January 1997. 152 pages. Stock no. 13828 (ISBN 0-8213-3828-5).
Download or read book Trends in Health Status Services and Finance Statistical annex written by Ellen Goldstein and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education systems in more than 50 countries, most of them in the industrial world, have in recent years shown an interest in obtaining information on what their students have actually learned as a result of their educational experiences. This interest has been manifested either by developing national procedures to assess students' achievements or by participating in international studies of student achievement. This book provides introductory information on ways of assessing the learning outcomes of education systems. It considers the nature, choice, and use of indicators and describes numerous approaches to assessing learning outcomes in selected industrial countries (the United States and the United Kingdom) and developing countries (Chile, Colombia, Mauritius, Namibia, and Thailand). The authors also review systems of comparative international assessment and debate whether developing countries should participate in them. The book contains boxes and tables; an appendix features a national assessment checklist.
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Download or read book Welfare Choice and Solidarity in Transition written by János Kornai and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-31 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reform of the welfare sector is an important yet difficult challenge for all countries in transition from socialist central planning to market-oriented democracies. Here a scholar of the economics of socialism and post-socialist transition and a health economist take on this challenge. This 2001 book offers health sector reform recommendations for ten countries of Eastern Europe, drawn consistently from a set of explicit guiding principles. After discussing sector-specific characteristics, lessons of international experience, and the main set of initial conditions, the authors advocate reforms based on organized public financing for basic care, private financing for supplementary care, pluralistic delivery of services, and managed competition. Policymakers need to achieve a balance, both assuring social solidarity through universal access to basic health services and expanding individual choice and responsibility through voluntary supplemental insurance. The authors also consider the problems that undermine effectiveness of market-based competition in the health sector.
Download or read book Trends in Health Status Services and Finance Statistical annex written by Ellen Goldstein and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Technical Paper No. 348. This second of a two-volume report on trends in health and health care in Central and Eastern Europe supplies a statistical annex to the first volume, which carried the main report. The annex describes the data analyzed in Volume I and contains comprehensive charts and tables of epidemiological, demographic, and health financing indicators for the period 1987-95. It also describes the data sources and discusses the quality of the data. Also available:"Trends in Health Status, Services, and Finance: The Transition in Central and Eastern Europe". Volume I. World Bank Technical Paper No. 341. November 1996. 56 pages. Stock no. 13751 (ISBN 0-8213-3751-3).
Download or read book Improving Women s Health Services in the Russian Federation written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Technical Paper No. 404. The health of Russian women has suffered during the economic crisis of recent years. Morbidity and mortality from chronic and infectious diseases have increased. Women's reproductive health has been compromised by an increase in the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases and by lack of access to up-to-date, high quality maternity and family planning services. This paper summarizes this current situation and reports on the findings of one element of the World Banks assistance to improve health care in the Russian Federation: a field testing of revised protocols for the care of women and infants.
Download or read book Economic and Financial Challenges for Balkan and Eastern European Countries written by Marietta Janowicz-Lomott and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings book presents selected papers from the 10th international conference on the "Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries in the Changing World" (EBEEC), held in Warsaw, Poland, in May 2018. In addition to discussing the latest research, it includes papers adopting a wide variety of theoretical approaches and empirical methodologies and covering a number of key areas, such as international economics, economic growth, finance and banking, insurance, healthcare, agriculture, labor and energy markets, innovation, management and marketing. In addition, the authors discuss policy instruments and best practices for the region. This book appeals to scholars and students in fields of economics and finance as well as practitioners interested in the development of the region.
Download or read book Privatization and Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe written by Gerhard Pohl and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do women in most developing countries lag behind men in literacy? Why do women get less schooling than men? This anthology examines the educational decisions that deprive women of an equal education. It assembles the most up-to-date data, organized by region. Each paper links the data with other measures of economic and social development. This approach helps explain the effects different levels of education have on womens' fertility, mortality rates, life expectancy, and income. Also described are the effects of women's education on family welfare. The authors look at family size and women's labor status and earnings. They examine child and maternal health, as well as investments in children's education. Their investigation demonstrates that women with a better education enjoy greater economic growth and provide a more nurturing family life. It suggests that when a country denies women an equal education, the nation's welfare suffers. Current strategies used to improve schooling for girls and women are examined in detail. The authors suggest an ambitious agenda for educating women. It seeks to close the gender gap by the next century. Published for The World Bank by The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Download or read book Labor Markets and Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe written by N. A. Barr and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Labor Markets and Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe' summarises social policy reform during the transition and EU accession and analyses the social policy challenges which continue to face both old and new member states. Specifically, the book amplifies two sets of arguments. First, social policy under communism was in important respects well-suited to the old order andprecisely for that reasonwas systematically badly-suited to a market economy. Strategic reform directions thus followed from the nature of the transition process and from constraints imposed by EU accession. Secondly, successful accession is not the end of the story: economic and social trends over the past 50 years are creating strains for social policy which all countriesold and new memberswill have to face.This book will be of interest to readers interested in social policy, particularly those with an interest in the process of post-communist transition, in EU accession, and in future social policy challenges for the wider Europe. It should be of interest to academics in departments of economics, social policy and political science, and to policy makers, including government advisers and civil servants.
Download or read book Health Care Law making in Central and Eastern Europe written by André Pieter den Exter and published by Intersentia nv. This book was released on 2002 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relevance of a theoretical model of health care law-making in several Central and Eastern European countries. Confronted with the legacy of the ancient regime, the countries selected shifted away from a 'socialist' model towards a more 'market-oriented' health care system. From a legal perspective, this change of system imposed on government the need for drastic reforms starting with the introduction of a compulsory health insurance scheme based on the notion of solidarity. Future accession to the EU, requiring the incorporation of the acquis communautaire, has increased the complexity of legal reforms since. Strengthening the reform process, the author developed a method of law-making based on legal-theoretical understanding. Case study research in three selected countries justifies the conclusion that the analytical model rationalises the law-making activity, including the 'EU law approximation process'. What is more, it became apparent that the importance of this theoretical model is not restricted only to the selected countries but may also be a valuable instrument for other countries in transition in the region. Health care law-making in Central and Eastern Europe - Review of a legal-theoretical model provides a unique resource for scholars and policy makers interested in legal reforms in Central and Eastern European health care systems.
Download or read book Environmental Management and Institutions in OECD Countries written by Magda Lovei and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As environmental protection is attracting increasing political attention and public support, many developing countries are designing and putting into practice environmental institutions. This study analyzes the experience of several OECD countries in order to identify factors that influence the role and success of environmental management; possible causes of the discrepancy between national environmental objectives and actual performance; and implications of lessons learned and recommendations for countries that are in the process of establishing or redesigning their environmental management systems.
Download or read book Listening to Farmers written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agro-ecological.
Download or read book Successful Conversion to Unleaded Gasoline in Thailand written by Philip Sayeg and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government of Thailand within a five-year period (1991-95) introduced a series of initiatives that resulted in the elimination of leaded gasoline and reduction of ambient lead by a factor of 10. This report describes the strategies the government employed: educating about the dangers of airborne lead; setting a lower at-pump price for unleaded gasoline; helping the oil companies establish a system to distribute unleaded gasoline throughout the country; conducting monitoring and follow-up studies; and adjusting environmental regulations as necessary to support these policies.
Download or read book Clean Fuels for Asia written by Michael Walsh and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gasoline, alternative fuels.
Download or read book Governance and Regulation of Power Pools and System Operators written by James Barker and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation World Bank Technical Paper No. 382.This technical paper compares and contrasts the governance and regulation of new style power pools in Australia, Canada, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. These trading markets in electricity commodities and services are explored in various ways. The authors review the basic governance models, compare decisionmakers in the industry, examine market surveillance methods used, and explore the role of government and the regulator. The paper emphasizes the lessons that can be learned from international experiences.
