HiT Italy Page 1 Italy Health system review Vol. 16 No. 4 2014 Health Systems in Transition
Francesca Ferré • Antonio Giulio de Belvis Luca Valerio • Silvia Longhi Agnese Lazzari • …

This article identifies and analyses a framework for “health baskets,” the taxonomy of benefit
catalogues for curative services, and the criteria for the in-or exclusion of benefits in nine EU …

Over the past 20 years, most European countries have introduced DRGs or similar grou**
systems as instruments for hospital reimbursement. This paper compares and analyzes the …

This study examines how a particular set of calculative practices and classification systems
helped to guide the emergency responses to the 2009 earthquake in Abruzzo, Italy …

Background Knowledge resources are in most productive sectors distinctive in terms of
competitiveness. Still, in the health sector, they can have an impact on the health of the …

Procurement policy can influence the diffusion of medical devices into national health
systems, but limited comparative evidence exists on how countries procure such …

ABSTRACT Italy and South Korea have two distinctly different healthcare systems, causing
them to respond to public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic in markedly …

In many European countries, since the World War II, there has been a trend towards
decentralization of health policy to lower levels of governments, while more recently there …

As the scale, frequency, and intensity of crises faced by the world have dramatically
increased over the last decade, there is a critical need for a careful stocktaking on the …

The main purpose of this paper is to highlight the new opportunities that the Viable Systems
Approach (VSA) can provide for observing complex service systems and explaining social …