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Personalised Medicine in Public Healthcare Systems

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This chapter discusses the profound impact personalised medicine is expected to have on public healthcare systems. First, introducing personalised medicine will radically affect the healthcare value chain and stages in which the healthcare system plays the key role, namely in the form of lifelong care for a person’s healthy life. Public healthcare networks will become increasingly international. Second, in the current situation, out-of-pocket payment is the most reasonable way of financing personalised medicine, but the future development of personalised medicine will depend on health insurance that resembles life insurance. Third, it is possible to ground collective financing only on solidarity and not on the differences between social and individual effects. Fourth, personalised medicine requires a great deal of state regulation. Fifth, personalised medicine is based on a large volume of information and only the individual should have the right to decide how this information is used.

This chapter addresses the relationship between personalised medicine and the public healthcare system. It is based on the hypothesis that the development of personalised medicine will call for a radical change in the foundations of public healthcare systems across the world.

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Notes

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    Redekop and Mladsi (2013) and Jain (2015).

  2. 2.

    Jain (2015).

  3. 3.

    Official Journal of the European Union, 2015/C 421/03.

  4. 4.

    Jain (2015).

  5. 5.

    Carlsten et al. (2014).

  6. 6.

    Bieber (2013).

  7. 7.

    Jakka and Rossbach (2013).

  8. 8.

    Jakka and Rossbach (2013).

  9. 9.

    Jain (2015).

  10. 10.

    Meulen et al. (2001), Kornai and Eggleston (2001) and Saltman (2015).

  11. 11.

    Phelps (2016) and McPake et al. (2013).

  12. 12.

    Sagan and Thomson (2016).

  13. 13.

    Kornai (1986).

  14. 14.

    Jegers et al. (2002) and Phelps (2016).

  15. 15.

    Stiglitz and Rosengard (2015) and Carande-Kulis et al. (2007).

  16. 16.

    Henke and Borchardt (2003).

  17. 17.

    Jakka and Rossbach (2013).

  18. 18.

    Porter and Lee (2013).

  19. 19.

    Xinghua Hu et al. (2005).

  20. 20.

    McPake et al. (2013).

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  1. University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Maks Tajnikar & Petra Došenović Bonča

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  1. Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

    Nada Bodiroga-Vukobrat

  2. Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Rijeka, Croatia

    Daniel Rukavina

  3. Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Faculty of Medicine, Pula, Croatia

    Krešimir Pavelić

  4. Department of Biotechnology, Centre for High-Throughput Technologies, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

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Tajnikar, M., Došenović Bonča, P. (2019). Personalised Medicine in Public Healthcare Systems. In: Bodiroga-Vukobrat, N., Rukavina, D., Pavelić, K., Sander, G.G. (eds) Personalized Medicine in Healthcare Systems. Europeanization and Globalization, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16465-2_22

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