Constructing a European healthcare market: The private healthcare company Capio and the strategic aspect of the drive for transparency

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1512-1520

  Blomgren, Maria ^a   Sundén, Eva ^b  

^a Department of Business Studies ^*  (Sweden)

^b Coor Service Management ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Europeanisation; Healthcare; Industrialisation; Marketisation; Private company; Transparency

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH POLICY; INDUSTRIALIZATION; PRIVATE SECTOR; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

ACCOUNTING; ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EUROPE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MEDICAL AUDIT; POLITICS; QUALITY CONTROL; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HEALTH POLICY; HOSPITALS, PROPRIETARY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); OUTSOURCED SERVICES; PRIVATE SECTOR; PRIVATIZATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 52949124784     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.06.035     Document Type: Article

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