Table 1 |
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Main characteristics of intervention countries and intervention and control regions |
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Country |
Health System |
intervention region |
control region |
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Hungary |
Centralised national health insurance fund, limited private sector |
Miskolc population 180,000 |
Szeged population 170,000 |
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Ireland |
Tax funded public health service, with supplemental voluntary insurance |
Limerick population 184,055 |
Galway population 231,670 |
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Portugal |
mix of National Health Service, special social health insurance schemes for certain professions and private health insurance |
Amadora population 200,000 |
Almada population 110,000 |
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Germany |
Bismarckian/social health insurance system with strong public-private partnership |
Leipzig population 500,000 |
Magdeburg population 230,000 |
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Hegerl et al. BMC Public Health 2009 9:428 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-428 |
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