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| National Health Policy In Greece: Regulations Or Reforms ? The Sisyphus Myth |
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Authors: Nicholas Polyzos, Charalampos Economou, Christos Zilidis Abstract:
This paper attempts an evaluation of health care reforms and regulations
in Greece. The main findings indicate that the existing Conservative Government
has kept but not developed some previous Social-democrats’ major reforms
concerning decentralisation and hospital management arrangements. The
government also announced new regulations concerning the pharmaceutical
sector and the procurement procedures of the national health units. On the other
hand, precedent regulations for primary health care were to be postponed and the
fundamental financing issue of the system has been neglected. In addition, this
paper intends to take parallel account that terms such as globalisation and
enlargement are still within the European perspective of the country. Overall, the
Greek NHS seems to be developed and enlarged, besides the lack of strong
political will to consider reforms and even regulations, into a continuous
managerial process, assessment and public dialogue. In this sense, there is a
continuing gap between - on the one hand - principles and goals and - on the
other hand - rational planning, political issues and implementation process, all
resulting in a never-ending reform scenario.
Keywords: health policy, health care reform, regulations, globalization, enlargement JEL Classification: |





