Healthcare reform in the Netherlands: after 15 years of regulated competition

This article discusses the results and prospects of the market reform in Dutch health care which came into force in 2006. The central message is that the high expectations of the market reform have not come true ...

Unmasking a Healthcare System: The Dutch Policy Response to the Covid-19 Crisis

Unmasking a Healthcare System: The Dutch Policy Response to the Covid-19 Crisis

Public health crises, like the Covid 19 outbreak, require decisive intervention at both national and local levels, and reveal institutionalized resilience capacity of healthcare systems. Covid-19 not only unmasks some of the most critical features of the Dutch healthcare system, it has also become the litmus test for political decision-making in times of crisis.

Unmasking a Healthcare System: The Dutch Policy Response to the Covid-19 Crisis
Wallenburg, I.; Helderman, J.K. ; Jeurissen, P.; Bal, R.
Health Economics, Policy and Law, (2021), pp. 1-14

How the logics of the market, bureaucracy, professionalism and care are reconciled in practice:

an empirical ethics approach

Florien M. Kruse, Wieke M. R. Ligtenberg, Anke J. M. Oerlemans, Stef Groenewoud and Patrick P. T. Jeurissen
BMC Health Services Research volume 20, Article number: 1024 (2020)

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