Health policy
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To discuss the background, nature and facilitating and hindering factors of the privatisation process in health care in Slovenia. ⋯ Slovenia's privatisation in health care is focused on primary health care and on health expenditures. Controversies over its extent kept privatisation contained and controlled. Today's share of private provision of health services remains at the conservative end of the European Union. Private expenditures for health services increased considerably, while privatisation of health infrastructure and management has so far been limited. Concerns about the future course of privatisation relate to the issues of equity, fairness and solidarity.
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To describe and evaluate the different price control strategies implemented in Norway after its accession to the European Economic Area (1994-2004). ⋯ The direct pricing strategy, i.e. the international reference pricing, was considered to be the most successful method. In contrast, due to the unpredictability of the market situation, the resulting effects of the indirect methods, i.e. reference-based pricing, generic substitution, and index pricing, were more limited.