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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access published online on May 1, 2008
The European Journal of Public Health, doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckn024
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Commentary

Decentralization, re-centralization and future health policy

Lluis Bohigas

Correspondence: e-mail: Iluis.bohigas@economistes.com

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Dr Saltman has tried with his article to forecast a trend for the future development of health policy in Europe, a very difficult task. His analysis concludes that there is a new re-centralization in countries where decentralization has been the paradigm in healthcare policy. Although this is very interesting, I do not totally agree.

In my comment to this article, I will review the evidence of the article about what happens in the countries analysed by the author: the Nordic group (Finland, Norway, Sweden), the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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