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Key Aspects of a Sustainable Health Insurance System in Germany

Overview of attention for article published in Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, February 2016
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Title
Key Aspects of a Sustainable Health Insurance System in Germany
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Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, February 2016
DOI 10.1007/s40258-016-0223-8
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Matthias Pelster, Vera Hagemann, Franziska Laporte Uribe

Abstract

The main goals of health-care systems are to improve the health of the population they serve, respond to people's legitimate expectations, and offer fair financing. As a result, the health system in Germany is subject to continuous adaption as well as public and political discussions about its design. This paper analyzes the key challenges for the German health-care system and the underlying factors driving these challenges. We aim to identify possible solutions to put the German health-care system in a better position to face these challenges. We utilize a broad array of methods to answer these questions, including a review of the published and grey literature on health-care planning in Germany, semi-structured interviews with stakeholders in the system, and an online questionnaire. We find that the most urgent (and manageable) aspects that merit attention are holistic hospital planning, initiatives to increase (administrative) innovation in the health-care system, incentives to increase prevention, and approaches to increase analytical quality assurance. We found that hospital planning, innovation, quality control, and prevention, are considered to be the topics most in need of attention in the German health system.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 45 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 9 20%
Student > Master 8 18%
Researcher 6 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 11%
Student > Postgraduate 3 7%
Other 8 18%
Unknown 6 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 22%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 13%
Social Sciences 5 11%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 7%
Other 9 20%
Unknown 6 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 May 2016.
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#14,249,851
of 22,849,304 outputs
Outputs from Applied Health Economics and Health Policy
#477
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#156,272
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Outputs of similar age from Applied Health Economics and Health Policy
#10
of 22 outputs
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