Universal Health Coverage in Italy: lights and shades of the Italian National Health Service which celebrated its 40th anniversary
| Autor: | Aurea Oradini-Alacreu, Gabriele Pelissero, Carlo Signorelli, Anna Odone |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Signorelli, C., Odone, A., Oradini-Alacreu, A., Pelissero, G. |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Aging
Financing Government Economic growth media_common.quotation_subject Universal design Population 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Universal Health Insurance Health care Humans Quality (business) 030212 general & internal medicine education health care economics and organizations media_common education.field_of_study business.industry 030503 health policy & services Health Policy Anniversaries and Special Events General partnership Sustainability Business 0305 other medical science Delivery of Health Care Welfare Health care quality |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.healthpol.2019.11.002&partnerID=40&md5=3b1129cd30e064a0117c00cb4df92103 |
| Popis: | The Italian National Health Service (I-NHS) was established in 1978 to guarantee universal access to healthcare. Prominent in international reports, the I-NHS has reached a satisfactory level of efficiency and excellent standards of care in many regions, in forty years. Along the years, I-NHS has developed a structural public-private partnership in health services delivery that in some regions contributes to the achievement of very high standards of healthcare quality. However, the I-NHS is currently facing some major challenges: (a) Italy is experiencing a remarkable aging of its population with increasing health needs; (b) the recent and constant cuts to public expenditures are reducing the budget for welfare. It is of utmost importance to ensure that on-going efforts to contain health system costs do not subsume health care quality. In addition, monitoring of the essential levels of care (Livelli Essenziali di Assistenza, LEA) highlights significant differences in healthcare delivery among Italian regions that, in turns, contribute to the burdensome migration of patients to best-performing regions. Therefore, a more consolidated and ambitious approach to quality monitoring and healthcare improvement at a system level is needed to guarantee its sustainability in the future. |
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