López, GuillemUniversitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa2020-05-252020-05-251998-01-01Chapter in Julien Le Grand and E. Mossialos, 'Cost-Containment in Health Care', january 1998http://hdl.handle.net/10230/333The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the evolution of health care expenditure in Spain during the period 1980-1997, and henceforth to comment on the cost containment measures put forward to control its growth. The paper is divided into three separate sections. The first offers a brief description of the Spanish Health Care System, with emphasis placed on the issue of expenditure control and health planning targets. The second part outlines a set of cost containment measures that has accompanied the process of extending universal health care coverage which occurred during the mentioned period and which has helped keep public expenditure under control. Finally, the third part describes some of the more recent proposals for reform of the Spanish Health Care Sector.application/pdfengL'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commonsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/workingPapercost containmenthealth carethe spanish nhshealth economicsLabour, Public, Development and Health Economicsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess