Description
Book SynopsisIn this book, we invited 146 authors with expertise in health policy, systems design, management, research, or practice, from each of the countries included, to consider health reforms or systems improvements in their country or region. The resulting case studies, of 52 individual countries and five regional groupings, cover 152 countries or territories, or three-quarters of the world's nations. Each chapter author was asked to think 515 years into the future and make a prediction on how their health system could be strengthened as a result of the successful unfolding of their case study.
The types of projects our authors have chosen to explicate into the future are wide-ranging. They vary from e-consultation services in Estonia, achieving universal health coverage in Argentina and Mexico, reforming long-term care in the Netherlands, reassessing care for the aging population and the frail elderly in Australia, streamlining the health system through Lean Thinking in Nigeria, us
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Contributors
Introduction
Part I The Americas
1 Argentina: Achieving Universal Coverage
2 Brazil: Patient Safety: Distance-Learning Contribution
3 Canada: The Future of Health Systems: Personalization
4 Chile: The Struggle for an Integrated Health Insurance System
5 Guyana: Paradigm Shift: From Institutional Care to Community-Based Mental Health Services
6 Mexico: Leveraging Conditional Cash Transfers and Universal Health Coverage to Tackle Non-Communicable Diseases
7 Trinidad and Tobago: Nurse Training: A Competency-Based Approach
8 The United States of America: The U.S. Healthcare System: A Vision for the Future
9 Venezuela: Learning from Failure and Leveraging Technology: Innovations for Better Care
Part II Africa
10 Namibia: Lessons from Patient Involvement in HIV Care: A Paradigm for Patient Activation and Involvement across Health
Systems
11 Nigeria: Doing More with Less: Lean Thinking in the Health System
12 South Africa: Regulated Standards: Implementation and Compliance
13 Rwanda: Embracing One Health as a Strategy to Emerging Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control
14 Africa: Equity for All: A Global Health Perspective for the Continent
Part III Europe
15 Austria: Primary Healthcare Centers: A Silver Bullet?
16 Denmark: Patient-Reported Outcomes: Putting the Patient First
17 England: Getting Personal? Personal Health Budgets
18 Estonia: e-Consultation Services: Cooperation between Family Doctors and Hospital Specialists
19 Finland: A Real-Life Experiment in Precision Medicine
20 France: Horizon 2030: Adopting a Global-Local Approach to Patient Safety
21 Germany: Health Services Research and Future Planning in Pediatric Care
22 Greenland: Everyday Life with Chronic Illness: Developing a Democratic and Culture-Sensitive Healthcare Practice
23 Italy: The Introduction of New Medical Devices in an Era of Economic Constraints
24 Malta: The National Cancer Plan: Strengthening the System
25 The Netherlands: Reform of Long-Term Care
26 Northern Ireland: Developing a Framework to Support Building Improvement Capacity across a System
27 Norway: Bridging the Gap: Opportunities for Hospital Clinical Ethics Committees in National Priority Setting
28 Portugal: Prevention of Antimicrobial Resistance through Antimicrobial Stewardship: A Nationwide Approach
29 Russia: The Future of Physicians’ Specialization
30 Scotland: Deliberative Engagement: Giving Citizen Involvement Meaning and Impact
31 Spain: How Can Patient Involvement and a Person-Centered Approach Improve Quality in Healthcare? The Patients’
University and Other Lessons from Spain
32 Sweden: The Learning Health System
33 Switzerland: Teamwork and Simulation
34 Turkey: Moving Quality in Healthcare Beyond Hospitals: The Turkish Accreditation Model
35 Wales: Realizing a Data-Driven Healthcare Improvement Agenda: A Manifesto for World-Class Patient Safety
36 Central and Eastern Europe: Strengthening Community-Based Family Care and Improving Health Equities
37 Central Asia: From Russia with Love: Health Reform in the Stans of Central Asia
Part IV Eastern Mediterranean
38 Iran: Hospital Accreditation: Future Directions
39 Jordan: Improving Quality of Care by Developing a National Human Resources for Health Strategy
40 Lebanon: m-Health for Healthcare Delivery Reform: Prospects for Lebanese and Refugee Communities
41 Oman: Paradigm Change: Healthy Villages to Meet Tomorrow’s Health Needs
42 Pakistan: The Way Forward
43 Qatar: Hospice Palliative Care
44 The United Arab Emirates: Improving Healthcare through a National Unified Medical Record
45 Yemen: Integrating Public Health and Primary Care: A Strategy for the Health System of the Future
46 Middle East and North Africa (MENA): Health Systems in Transition
Part V South-East Asia and the Western Pacific
47 Australia: The Silver Tsunami: The Impact of the Aging Population on Healthcare
48 China: Integrated Stratified Healthcare System
49 Hong Kong: Integrated Health Services: A Person-Centered Approach
50 India: How to Build a First-World Health System on a Third- World Budget
51 Japan: Toward a Community-Friendly Dementia Strategy
52 Malaysia: The Future Malaysian Antenatal Care System: Building upon the Old
53 Mongolia: Health System Financing
54 New Zealand: Strengthening Primary Healthcare
55 Papua New Guinea: Strengthening the Collection, Analysis, and Use of Health Data through eHealth Solutions
56 Taiwan: "My Data, My Decision": Taiwan’s Health Improvement Journey from Big Data to Open Data
57 South-East Asia: Taming Communicable Diseases
Discussion and Conclusion
References
Index
