title: Health care delivery in Belgium.
abstract: Formerly Belgium's Catholic hospitals prospered within a system based on collectivized financing and individualistic service delivery patterns. Now faced with decreasing vocations, the religious congregations and the national Catholic hospital association are working toward a comprehensive health care delivery system in which laypersons' role is expanded and regional activities are coordinated.
mesh_terms: D001530:Belgium; D002410:Catholicism; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000266:history; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000458:organization & administration; D012954:Societies, Hospital