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The emergence of financial capital in the health insurance business in Europe: The case of Spain in the last fifty years
(Cambridge University Press, 2024)
[Abstract]: Sickness insurance companies were developed in Spain by doctors and healthcare professionals,
remaining outside the interests of general insurance companies. Their management was hardly professional, with ...
La extensión del seguro de salud en Iberoamérica: una estrategia de política exterior del franquismo en la inmediata posguerra (1942-1959)
(CSIC, 2015)
[Resumen] La dictadura franquista por motivos de estrategia política intentó influir en materia de seguros sociales, en especial en la
cobertura de la enfermedad, en los países iberoamericanos durante las décadas de 1940 ...
Employers’ Mutuals and Accident Insurance Scheme in Spain: From Rejection to Control and Collaboration (1966–1990)
(Cambridge University Press, 2022)
[Abstract]: This article discusses the role of employers and their organizations
in promoting or hindering social insurance schemes and, ultimately, the welfare state. Unlike most studies that center on
countries in ...
'For the workers but without the workers': industrial accident management under the Franco dictatorship (1939-1966)
(Taylor & Francis/Routledge, 2020)
[Abstract]: In the first decades of this century, Spain still has a high industrial accident rate compared
with other Western European countries. Within the framework of the most recent
historiographical theses, this ...
The genesis, growth and organisational changes of private health insurance companies in Spain (1915-2015)
(Francis & Taylor/Routledge, 2019)
[Abstract]: The crisis of welfare states in Europe has offered a growing market
share to private health insurance companies. Health insurance is
currently one of the fastest growing branches of private insurance
business ...
Austerity, Healthcare Provision, and Health Outcomes in Spain
(Springer, 2020)
[Abstract]: The recession that started in the United States in December 2007 has had a significant impact on
the Spanish economy through a large increase in the unemployment rate and a long recession
which led to tough ...
Competition and collaboration between public and private sectors: the historical construction of the Spanish hospital system (1942-1986)
(Wiley, 2019)
[Abstract]: In general, healthcare, along with diet, has historically been an essential component of
life and a country's welfare. In particular, a country’s hospital system is a key indicator
for analysing the level of ...
The long shadow of charity in the Spanish hospital system, c. 1870-1942
(Francis & Taylor/Routledge, 2019)
[Abstract]: One of the key historical changes related to the increase in overall welfare for the
population of Europe was the provision of sickness coverage. Public and private
hospital charity was focused almost exclusively ...