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Contents
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Appendix 7.1 242
References 243
Chapter 8 247
The impact of the crisis on the health system and health in the Netherlands
Ronald Batenburg, Madelon Kroneman and Anna Sagan
Introduction 247
1. The nature and magnitude of the financial and economic crisis 247
2. Health system pressures prior to the crisis 250
3. Health system responses 257
4. Implications for health system performance 270
5. Discussion 274
6. Conclusions 277
References 277
Chapter 9 283
The impact of the crisis on the health system and health in Portugal
Constantino Sakellarides, Luis Castelo-Branco, Patrícia Barbosa and Helda Azevedo
Introduction 283
1. The nature and magnitude of the financial and economic crisis 284
2. Health system pressures prior to the crisis 287
3. Health system responses to the crisis 288
4. Implications for health system performance and health 302
5. Discussion 307
6. Conclusions 311
Appendix 9.1 312
Acknowledgements 313
References 313
Part II: Country profiles of health system responses to the crisis 321
Albania
Genc Burazeri and Enver Roshi 323
Armenia
Lyudmila Niazyan and Varduhi Petrosyan 326
Austria
Thomas Czypionka and Maria M. Hofmarcher 329
Azerbaijan
Fuad Ibrahimov 333
Belarus
Aleksander Grakovich and Irina Novik 336
Belgium
Irina Cleemput and Carine Van de Voorde 340
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Milka Dancevic-Gojkovic 346
Bulgaria
Antoniya Dimova and Mina Popova 349
Croatia
Martina Bogut 354
Cyprus
Elisavet Constantinou and Mamas Theodorou 357
The Czech Republic
Tomáš Roubal and Jan Šturma 361