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6 - Hospitals, Doctors and Nurses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2021

Federico Toth
Federico Toth
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Università degli Studi, Bologna, Italy
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This chapter completes the description of the delivery system, focusing on three fundamental categories of providers: hospitals, doctors and nurses. For each of these three categories, recent data regarding the density of these providers with respect to the resident population are reported. These data are provided for the twenty-seven OECD countries analyzed in this book. A particular focus is reserved for the mechanism through which hospital facilities and physicians are remunerated.

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Hospitalsdoctorsnurseshospital paymentmedical professionphysician payment methodshealthcare provisionnursing professiontask shifting
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Comparative Health Systems
A New Framework
 , pp. 145 - 178
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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