Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Natalya N. Sisigina
Author-Email: sisigina@nifi.ru 
Author-Workplace-Name: Financial Research Institute, Moscow 127006, Russia; Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow 119571, Russia 
Title: Problems of Transition to a Gatekeeper Model in Healthcare
Abstract: Regulation of access to specialist medical care is widely viewed as effective tool for health cost containment. However, the results of the access reforms in well-developed public health systems in practice are often below the expected level. The article provides an overview of structure and outcomes of major national access reform programmes in European countries. Based on the collected data key determinants of successful adoption of gatekeeping model were highlighted in the article. The author
proposes the promising ways of the development of the current access model reform in Russia.
Classification-JEL: I18
Keywords: access to health care, gatekeeper model, health cost containment, managed care
Journal: Finansovyj žhurnal — Financial Journal
Pages: 64-77
Issue: 3
Year: 2018
Month: June
DOI: 10.31107/2075-1990-2018-3-64-77
File-URL: http://www.nifi.ru/images/FILES/Journal/Archive/2018/3/statii/fm_2018_3_05.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:fru:finjrn:180305:p:64-77