8th ESPAnet Conference 2010Social Policy and the Global Crisis:
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11.1. European Public Health Care Systems and Institutional-Organisational Change
European Public Health Care Systems and institutional-organisational change: an evaluation of their performance
In the last decades the European Public Health care systems (PHCS) have undergone deep institutional and organizational changes concerning issues such as: 1) privatization of delivery and/or financing; 2) the introduction of new public management (NPM) tools in order to organize provision (managerialism, quasi-markets, competition, users’ choice, etc.); 3) rescaling the government level of health care administration and provision (often following, but not always, a decentralization path). So far most of the international literature on health care has focused often on either the institutional or the organizational (managerial-administrative) dimensions of PHCS, less frequently on both of them jointly and, above all, it has scarcely studied the relationship between different institutional and organizational arrangements and the PHCS performance (measured in terms of equity, universalism, efficiency, quality of outputs and outcomes, etc.).
The papers presented in the stream should develop a country level or comparative analysis that tries to build up a framework for studying and interpreting, on one side, institutional-organisational change in the PHCS, on the other, the connections between these organisational-institutional settings and the performance of such public health care systems.
Convenors:
| Ana M. Guillén | Emmanuele Pavolini | |
| Departamento de Sociología, Facultad de CC Económicas, Universidad de Oviedo Avda. del Cristo s/n, 33006 Oviedo, Spain Tel.: 0034-985-103727 Fax. 0034-985-105050 Email: aguillen@uniovi.es |
Dipartimento di Studi su Mutamento Sociale, Istituzioni giuridiche e comunicazione, University of Macerata, Via Don Minzoni, 2; 62100 Macerata Italy Tel. 0039-(0)733-2582589 Fax. 0039-(0)733-2582678 Email: e.pavolini@unimc.it |
Thursday, 14:00-16:00 Room 01, Session 11.1/A
Presentations:
1. Prof. Dr. Patrick Hassenteufel and Dr. Tanja Klenk: The organizational-institutional transformation of the German Healthcare System: mixing rescaling, privatization, and managerialism [abstract] [paper]
2. Alban Davesne and Bruno Palier: The French health system: the never-ending struggle for cost-containment [abstract] [paper]
3. Ingalill Montanari and Kenneth Nelson: Governance of health care: retrenchment and convergence? [abstract] [paper]
Contributed papers:
1. Annalisa Ornaghi and M. Tognetti Bordogna: A comparative analysis of financing, service provision and access to healthcare system. The French and Italian case [abstract] [paper]
Thursday, 16:30-18:30 Room 01, Session 11.1/B
Presentations:
1. Ines Verspohl: Privatisation and Profitisation in Health Care [abstract] [paper]
2. Renate Minas: (Re)centralizing tendencies within Health Care Services. Implementation of a new idea? [abstract] [paper]
3. François Briatte: The Europeanization of Cancer Control Performance: A Theoretical Framework, with Application to Britain [abstract] [paper]
4. Della Bella & Lucchini & Sarti & Tognetti: A comparative analysis of inequality in health across [abstract] [paper]
5. Joan-Costa Font: Devolution and Health Care Reform. The United Kingdom and Spain in Comparative perspective [abstract] [paper]
Contributed papers:
1. Guido Cavalca and Stefania Sabatinelli: Non urgent cases in overcrowded Emergency Unit: unsatisfied needs and reorganization hypothesis to improve performance. Main results from an empirical research on a big Milan hospital. [abstract] [paper]
2. Rosanne Oomkens: Level of Professionalism Matters: Comparing Consequences of Performance-based Contracting for Transparency and Autonomy [abstract] [paper]
Important dates
17 November 2009 = Call for stream convenors
18 December 2009 = Deadline for stream convenors
25 January 2010 = Call for abstracts
29 March 2010 = Deadline for abstract submission
3 May 2010 = Registration starts
6 June 2010 = Reduced fee application deadline
21 June 2010 24:00 (CET) = Early bird registration deadline
13 August 2010 24:00 (CET) - Deadline for submission of papers
16 August 2010 - Deadline for Registrations and payments
Registration fee is 160 Euros for early birds, 210 Euros for late birds. Central and Eastern European PhD students and professionals can apply for a reduced fee of 60 Euros at info@espanet2010.net until 6th June.
Registration opens on the 3rd May, early bird registration closes on the 21th June at 24:00 (CET).
Theme of the Conference
The theme of ESPAnet’s 2010 Annual Conference is the social consequences of the global financial crisis and its differential impact across Europe. The main questions for consideration include:
How is the crisis affecting already existing inequalities? How are different social classes and groups, especially those in poverty, affected by the crisis? What are the adaptable capacities of the different “worlds of welfare”? Does the intensifying social vulnerability lead to the re-structuring of the programs to provide more security? How far have new programs been developed, and how far have new questions of social policy and welfare been opened up by the crisis?
We would like to broaden the horizon of social policy analysis and see global environmental concerns taken into account: How far are responses to the crisis re-thinking the role of the national and international/global state and the role of the European Union in creating economically, socially and environmentally sustainable societies?