Interview: Iceland's health care system. Interview by Susan Reeves.
Iceland has a well established system of socialized medicine and national health insurance. Its small homogeneous population has enabled Iceland to computerize and process data concerning quality of patient care, volume and type of drugs prescribed, and pertinent epidemiological information. In the following interview, Dr. Gudjon Magnusson discusses the development, maintenance, and operational costs of such a health care system.
D007055:Iceland; D007348:Insurance, Health; D010820:Physicians / Q000600:supply & distribution; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*