Health Care Provision and Patient Mobility Health Integration in the European Union /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Levaggi, Rosella (Editor), Montefiori, Marcello (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy, 12
• Subjects: Computer mathematics.; Statistics.; Public finance.; Economic policy.; Health economics.; Medical economics.; Emigration and immigration.; Economics.; Health Economics.; Migration.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.; Economic Policy.; Public Economics.

Patient mobility across Europe is markedly increasing and new generations will actively ask to be treated by the health-care system that best meets their needs. At a political level, the EU issued the EU Directive no. 24/2011/CE of 9th March 2011 concerning the application of patients’ rights in cro...

Table of Contents:

• Patient choice, mobility and competition among health care providers
• Using Discrete Choice Experiments to understand preferences in health care
• Implications of the EU patients' rights directive in cross-border healthcare on the German sickness fund system
• The possible effects of health professional mobility on access to care for patients
• Patient choice and mobility in the UK Health System: Internal and external markets
• What drives patient mobility across Italian regions? Evidence from hospital discharge data
• The impact of federalism on the healthcare system in terms of efficiency, equity, and cost containment: the case of Switzerland
• Patients’ mobility across borders: a welfare analysis
• Quality competition and uncertainty in a horizontally differentiated hospital market
• Cross border health care provision: who gains, who loses.