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From Plan to Market: A Comparison of Health and Old Age Care Policies in the UK and Sweden

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  • Marianna Fotaki
  • Alan Boyd

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This article reviews changes in the organization, delivery and financing of health care and old age services in the UK and Sweden over the past 25 years. User autonomy has become a more important policy objective than equity of access or equality of opportunity, with a greater reliance on market mechanisms for delivering services. The public and politicians seem to be prepared to accept that competition, choice and decentralization may result in a widening of regional and geographical inequalities, and the erosion of the universal character of the welfare state. These developments reflect broader normative shifts in both societies, and are likely to continue and become more widespread in the future, as they will be strongly influenced by demographic and social factors, fiscal constraints and the policies of supranational bodies such as the European Union.

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  • Marianna Fotaki & Alan Boyd, 2005. "From Plan to Market: A Comparison of Health and Old Age Care Policies in the UK and Sweden," Public Money & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(4), pages 237-243.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmmg:v:25:y:2005:i:4:p:237-243
    DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2005.10600099
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    1. Amadeo Fuenmayor & Rafael Granell & María Angeles Tortosa, 2016. "Quasi-markets Targets and the Evaluation of Nursing-home Funding in the Valencian Region," Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, IEF, vol. 216(1), pages 13-38, March.
    2. Anne West & Jutta Allmendinger & Rita Nikolai & Eleanor Barham, 2010. "Decentralisation and Educational Achievement in Germany and the UK," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 28(3), pages 450-468, June.

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