Because of the poor state of the Swedish economy, publicly provided health care services,
like other welfare services, are increasingly vulnerable to possible cutbacks. A growing …

The major elements of the Norwegian hospital reform in 2002 were a state takeover of
ownership of hospitals and the establishment of local and regional healthcare enterprises …

Recent reform experience in Sweden supports the premise that key dimensions of a
country's health care system reflect the core social norms and values held by its citizenry …

In the Nordic countries, health care is an integral part of what is often termed the
Scandinavian (or Nordic) model of the welfare state (Esping-Andersen 1990). Thus, health …

Since the end of the 1980s, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland have all implemented
major changes in their health systems. This development has been paralleled by the market …

The Finnish health care system is widely respected for its pilot role in creating primary-care-
led health systems. In the early 1990s, however, a severe economic downturn in Finland …

It has become something of a health policy truism to suggest that, if the 1980s was the
decade of pursuing macro-efficiency at a system level, the 1990s has become the decade of …

This report presents the main characteristics of reforms in the Swedish health services, as
exemplified by the “Stockholm Model” introduced in 1992 in Stockholm county. The author …

From the early nineteenth century until about 1980, a close relationship developed in
Norway between the state and the medical profession. Medicine became integrated into the …

A growing number of Swedish county councils have started to develop more flexible
methods by which to produce and deliver health services. This paper explores the current …