• Strengthening health system governance in Germany: looking back, planning ahead by Tugce Schmitt, Alexander Haarmann and Mujaheed Shaikh

  • Aug 30 2022
  • Length: 53 mins
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  • Health system governance has been receiving increasing attention in health system research since the 1980s. The contemporary challenges that the German health system is faced with are often closely linked to governance issues. Although Germany has the highest health expenditure as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the European Union (EU), the spending on healthcare is out of proportion to the health outcomes of the population. The reason for this lies mainly in the complexity of the German health system which is hard to steer due to several administrative levels in the country and numerous policy actors to whom the decision-making power on healthcare provision is delegated. In this paper, we present the results of focus group discussions on governance and build upon the insights gained through the Neustart project of the Robert Bosch Foundation. Based on an internationally recognised health governance framework from the World Health Organization (WHO), experts who work in, on or for the German health system addressed health governance challenges. They provided evidence-based recommendations for the new legislative period (2021-2025) on transparency, accountability, participation, integrity and capacity of the German health system.

    This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.

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    Schmitt, T., Haarmann, A., & Shaikh, M. (2022). Strengthening health system governance in Germany: Looking back, planning ahead. Health Economics, Policy and Law, 1-18. doi:10.1017/S1744133122000123

    Corresponding author. Email: t.schmitt@maastrichtuniversity.nl

    https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/health-economics-policy-and-law/article/strengthening-health-system-governance-in-germany-looking-back-planning-ahead/3512F26711A5FFF9720BB86811531B61
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