The Healthcare Sector

Capano, G; Zito, AR; Toth, F; Rayner, J

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-07457-8_4

The Healthcare Sector

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Anthony Zito

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Abstract

© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This chapter examines governance change in health policy in the six case countries. The analysis intends to reconstruct the healthcare governance methods implemented in these countries and understand how they have evolved over the last 30 years. While each case study nation has faced similar pressures on health governance and has to some extent each introduced a similar reform agenda, national institutions, traditions and ideas have strongly shaped the trajectory of governance change. If we compare the policy mixes used in the 1980s and those used more recently, two common trends can be seen in all the countries here analysed. The first trend is the use, to a greater extent, of informational tools, which were rarer in the 1980s. The second trend of policy-makers is to compose policy mixes using a greater number of policy tools; in most cases, policy mixes are composed of a variety of regulatory and financial tools, both soft and hard.