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Dyrektywa o transgranicznej mobilności pacjentów – uwarunkowania ekonomiczno-polityczne oraz prawno-administracyjne
Directive on trans-border patients’ mobility – economic-political and legal-administrative determinants

Author(s): Rafał Riedel
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Political Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
Keywords: European health care market; transborder mobility; Europeanisation

Summary/Abstract: This paper seeks to investigate the directive on trans-border patients’ mobility – its scope, implementation, performance and perception as well as its potential to act as a founding stone of truly competitive market of healthcare services on a pan-European scale. Its impact goes far beyond delivering a legal framework for European Union citizens receiving medical services outside of their country of origin, it may be one of the major driving forces behind the process of harmonization of healthcare system across Europe.

  • Issue Year: 51/2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 155-166
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish
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