Sentences with phrase «component of health reforms»

Pay - for - performance — reimbursing health care providers based on the results they achieved with their patients as a way to improve quality and efficiency — has become a major component of health reforms in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other affluent countries.

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Investing at least 3 % of Australian and state and territory government health expenditure (an additional A$ 2bn to A$ 3bn per year by mid 2023) to drive research activity within the health system as an embedded component of the Australian government's health reforms

Besides increasing the proportion of people in the USA covered by medical insurance once the ACA is fully implemented, the authors show that structural and financing reforms introduced by the Act will help healthcare in the USA to transition from a «sick care system,» largely focused on treatment of illness, to a system that includes disease prevention, health promotion, early detection, and public health as integral components.

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), a key Medicare payment reform component of the Affordable Care Act, are designed to improve patient experience and quality of care and to reduce health care spending.

Pat Bullen, nasen consultant and SEND Pathfinder lead at Leicester City Council, discusses the new arrangements for assessment and the introduction of EHC (education, health and care) plans — core components of the SEND reforms

In «Make a carbon tax part of reform effort» (Concord Monitor, 9/19/11), Holtz - Eakin argues for comprehensive tax reform to include a carbon tax so that more of the «true cost of burning a fossil fuel... in the form of air pollution, a negative impact on human health, harm to the environment or climate change [is a] component in economic decisions [such as] include whether to invest in a coal - fired power plant or a wind farm.»