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Myth #6: Health Care Is Rightly Controlled by the Public Sector, for the Sake of Equality

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The healthcare sector has all the characteristics to be considered a complex system. Indeed, its extrinsic complexity is related to its openness, since the health system is affected by the political, social, and financial context where it operates.

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  1. WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Policy, Governance and Leadership in Europe, Institute of Public Health, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Largo Francesco Vito, 1, 00168, Rome, Italy

    Andrea Silenzi & Walter Ricciardi

  2. CeRGAS, SDA Bocconi - School of Management, Bocconi University, Via Roentgen 1, 20135, Milan, Italy

    Anna Prenestini

  3. Laboratory of Drug Regulatory Policies, IRCCS Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Via Giuseppe La Masa, 19, 20156, Milan, Italy

    Vittorio Bertelè

  4. Economia, Management, Istituzioni, University of Napoli Federico II, C.U. Monte Sant’Angelo—Via Cinthia, 80126, Naples (NA), Italy

    Riccardo Mercurio & Mariavittoria Cicellin

  5. Department of Social Sciences, University of Napoli Federico II, Vico Monte della Pietà, 1, 80138, Naples (NA), Italy

    Stefano Consiglio

  6. Institute of Economics (IdEP), Università della Svizzera Italiana, Via G. Buffi 13, Lugano, Switzerland

    Stefano Calciolari

  7. Directorate, IRCCS Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Via Giuseppe La Masa, 19, 20156, Milan, Italy

    Silvio Garattini

  8. Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, University of Rome La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Alessio Santoro

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Silenzi, A. et al. (2018). Myth #6: Health Care Is Rightly Controlled by the Public Sector, for the Sake of Equality. In: Adinolfi, P., Borgonovi, E. (eds) The Myths of Health Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53600-2_9

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