Publication details
Role of Interest Groups in Brokering Health Policy: The Case of Czech Health-Care Reform
| Authors | |
|---|---|
| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | The NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Field | Management and administrative |
| Keywords | health reform;interest groups;health policy |
| Description | With respect to an experience from a health-care reform process in the Czech Republic,the authors (corresponding to similar views of other authors) assume that failing health-care reforms can be explained by studying the roles and positions of key interest groups (health-care providers, insurance funds, pharmaceutical industry,etc.) in the health-care sector. From this point of view, a successful reform policy has to take into consideration not only objective concepts (such as need, access, quality and / or cost-control) but also the level of satisfaction of each key interest group involved in the service delivery. The aim of the paper is (1) to reveal economic interests of the principal Czech health-care sector actors and (2) to deduce whether the latest reform proposal could be successful. |