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Health care cost containment strategies: the Jordanian experience
Author(s) -
Rawabdeh Ali Ahamd Awad
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the international journal of health planning and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-1751
pISSN - 0749-6753
DOI - 10.1002/hpm.797
Subject(s) - business , health care , containment (computer programming) , public health , health insurance , public economics , actuarial science , economic growth , nursing , economics , medicine , computer science , programming language
Jordan's relative success in containing costs is the result of public financing of the health insurance system, the health care system reform strategy, and expanding the primary care network, which allows for cost containment and universal access based on the need for services rather than the ability to pay. The shift of costs from the public to the private sector must be curtailed. The determinants of health care (i.e. environment; human biology; life style; and health care system) are the main factors that determine future spending on health. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.