IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aka/soceco/v34y2012i2p193-220.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Assessment of patient payment policy in CEE countries: From a conceptual framework to policy indicators

Author

Listed:
  • Milena Pavlova

    (Maastricht University Department of Health Services Research, CAPHRI, Maastricht University Medical Center; Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences Maastricht The Netherlands.)

  • Marzena Tambor

    (Maastricht University Department of Health Services Research, CAPHRI, Maastricht University Medical Center; Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences Maastricht The Netherlands.
    Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum Department of Health Economics and Social Security, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences Jagiellonian Poland)

  • Tetiana Stepurko

    (Maastricht University Department of Health Services Research, CAPHRI, Maastricht University Medical Center; Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences Maastricht The Netherlands.
    National University of ‘Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’ School of Public Health Kyiv Ukraine)

  • Godefridus G. Merode

    (Maastricht University Department of Health Services Research, CAPHRI, Maastricht University Medical Center; Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences Maastricht The Netherlands.)

  • Wim Groot

    (Maastricht University Department of Health Services Research, CAPHRI, Maastricht University Medical Center; Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences Maastricht The Netherlands.
    Maastricht University Topinstitute Evidence-Based Education Research (TIER) Maastricht The Netherlands)

Abstract

The lack of systematic research on the assessment of patient payment policies emphasizes the need to evaluate the mechanisms of official patient charges. This paper aims to contribute to this research area by outlining a comprehensive framework for the assessment of patient payment policies, and by validating it on data for six CEE countries (Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Ukraine). Three broad groups of assessment criteria are included in the framework: policy context, policy content and policy effects. Within each of these groups, several sub-groups of criteria are defined. Our application of the assessment framework to the six CEE countries shows its relevance for the comparison of patient payment policy across countries, and for outlining common policy options. At the same time, it also reveals the need of collecting data on other relevant indicators that are not included in this paper, as well as for updating indicators already included. Research on patient payments will be essential for a continuous monitoring of patient payment policies (e.g. those in CEE) and their prompt adjustment.

Suggested Citation

  • Milena Pavlova & Marzena Tambor & Tetiana Stepurko & Godefridus G. Merode & Wim Groot, 2012. "Assessment of patient payment policy in CEE countries: From a conceptual framework to policy indicators," Society and Economy, Akadémiai Kiadó, Hungary, vol. 34(2), pages 193-220, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:aka:soceco:v:34:y:2012:i:2:p:193-220
    Note: The study is financed by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme, Theme 8 Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities, Project ASSPRO CEE 2007 (Grant Agreement no. 217431). The views expressed in this publication are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission or its services
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.akademiai.com/content/x450143811w665w2/fulltext.pdf
    Download Restriction: subscription
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Danyliv, Andriy & Groot, Wim & Gryga, Irena & Pavlova, Milena, 2014. "Willingness and ability to pay for physician services in six Central and Eastern European countries," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 117(1), pages 72-82.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    patient charges; policy assessment; Central and Eastern Europe;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aka:soceco:v:34:y:2012:i:2:p:193-220. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kriston, Orsolya (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://akademiai.hu/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.