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- ISSN: 18151973 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/18151973
Overcoming Vulnerabilities of Health Care Systems
This paper investigates the vulnerabilities of health care systems in OECD and BRIICS countries to
adverse secular trends and large macroeconomic shocks. It identifies policies that can ally vulnerabilities
considering the institutional setting of health care systems, such as the public-private mix and the main
sources of revenues, and the need to balance economic sustainability with the adequacy of services.
Keywords: sustainability, adequacy, macroeconomic shock, risk pooling, health care system
JEL:
I14: Health, Education, and Welfare / Health / Health and Inequality;
I15: Health, Education, and Welfare / Health / Health and Economic Development;
I13: Health, Education, and Welfare / Health / Health Insurance, Public and Private
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