PBHL 2214 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: William Beveridge, Unwarranted Variation, Infant Mortality
5 Jan 2017
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Jonas and kovner, chapter 4: comparative health systems. National health systems like uk, sweden, norway, finland, denmark, portugal, spain, italy, and greece. Maybe traced back to lord beveridge who wrote the blueprint for the english nhs after. In england 76% of nhs funding comes from generation taxation, 18% from a payroll tax. Nhi may be traced to the chancellor otto bon bismarck who established the first nhi program for salaried industrial workers in germany in 1883. With the exception of canada whose dominant share of financing is from general tax revenues these systems are characterized by payroll tax-based financing. Nhs systems the government uses its resources to operate most if not all of the delivery system. Nhi systems revenue is most often raised through payroll taxes to fund a social insurance programs that reimburses health care providers for services rather than paying for healthcare directly through the government"s budget.
