Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
Series |
HIZ, History of healthcare insurance ; 3 |
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HiZ-series history of healthcare insurance ; 3.
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Contents |
Guilds and health-insurance funds : solidarity during the Ancien RĂ©gime -- The end of the guild system, 1789-1820 -- The birth of modern health-insurance funds -- Health insurance as a governmental responsibility, 1850-1914 -- War, peace, war, 1914-1945 -- Growth and its limits, 1945-2000 -- Social health insurance and neoliberal regulated market competition, 2000-2008 -- The art of mutual understanding : one concept in three countries |
Summary |
Today, health insurance is a key component in the system of social security in most European Union countries. In many of these countries, modern health-insurance funds and healthcare insurers play an essential role in implementing the public health-insurance system. Many of these health-insurance funds have a long and fascinating history, of which clear traces can be seen today in the organisation and structure of health insurance, as well as health-insurance funds and insurers. In Two centuries of solidarity, the authors compare the systems of health insurance, health-insurance funds and heal |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
English |
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Health insurance -- Belgium
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Health insurance -- Germany
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Health insurance -- Netherlands
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Social health maintenance organizations -- Belgium
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Social health maintenance organizations -- Germany
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Social health maintenance organizations -- Netherlands
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Insurance.
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History.
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Health insurance.
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National health insurance.
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Humanities.
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Economics.
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Medical care.
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Insurance
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History
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History, Modern 1601-
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Insurance, Health
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Humanities
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Financing, Organized
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Economics
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Health Care Economics and Organizations
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Delivery of Health Care
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History, Early Modern 1451-1600
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National Health Programs
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Patient Care
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insurance.
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history (discipline)
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humanities.
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economics.
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Humanities.
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History.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Insurance -- Health.
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National health insurance
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Medical care
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Insurance
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Humanities
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History
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Economics
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Health insurance
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Social health maintenance organizations
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Belgium
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Germany
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Netherlands
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Companje, K. P. (Karel-Peter), 1955-
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Hendriks, R. H. M
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Veraghtert, Karel, 1944-
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Widdershoven, B. E. M. (Brigitte E. M.)
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ISBN |
9789048521289 |
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9048521289 |
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