Financial, Staffing and Societal Sustainability of Dutch Health Care

Dr. Gijsbert D.A. Werner is a is senior research fellow at the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR - Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het egeringsbeleid). He was the project coordinator of the team responsible for writing this analysis of financial, staffing and societal sustainability of the Dutch health care system. At the WRR, he also worked on reports on climate justice and global population ageing. Previously he worked as an evolutionary biologist studying the evolution of cooperation at the University of Oxford and VU University Amsterdam.Prof. dr. Arthur van Riel is a senior research fellow at the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy and Professor of Historical Political Economy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. An historian and economist by training, he worked as an advisor to successive Dutch Finance Ministers before joining the Scientific Council in 2012. His academic work has covered the political economy of the Weimar Republic,the role of political institutions and public policy in Dutch nineteenth century industrialization, the economy of the Dutch Republic, the evolution of private debt and the functioning of the European Monetary Union.Prof. dr. Mérove I.L. Gijsberts is senior research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP and professor by special appointment at the European Research enter of Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER) at Utrecht University. She temporarily joined the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy/WRR to contribute to this book. Em. Prof. Dr. Marianne de Visser is a member of the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy. She was chairing the committee which was engaged in the project on financial, staffing and societal sustainability of the Dutch health care system. Her academic work focuses on diagnosis and treatment of neurological and in particular neuromuscular diseases. Previously she has had various administrative functions at the (inter)national level.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Care in a Changing Context.- Chapter 3. Sustainability in Three Dimensions.- Chapter 4. Organization and Performance of Dutch Health and Social Care.- Chapter 5. Sustainability Through Efficiency.- Chapter 6. Staffing Sustainability.- Chapter 7. Priorities and Distribution in Health Care.- Chapter 8. Towards Better Choices in Care.- Chapter 9.- Choosing Sustainability: Conclusions and Recommendations.