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Health service financing in Poland

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Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1987
Tongue: English
Weight: 583 KB
Volume: 2
Category: Article
ISSN: 0749-6753
DOI: 10.1002/hpm.4740020207

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✦ Synopsis

The right to a free health service is identified as one of the founding rules of socialism; yet other sources of funding, both public and private, should not be neglected. This article reviews the major sources of financing health services in Poland. In particular, a description is made of the size and composition of funding from non-governmental sources including: quasi-budget funds, other funds, and out-of-pocket payments; and some proposals are made for change. Further work is needed in developing the criteria by which policy choices can be made, and in developing the information base; at the same time, political and social criteria will still be very important, not least on the issue of user charges.

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