... whether a reduction in hospital capacity on its own can achieve the intended savings, since theintensity of treatment in the remaining facilities increases (Shanahan et al. 1999).What is a hospital?At ... Healy and Jane Falkingham (eds): Health Care in Central AsiaElias Mossialos, Anna Dixon, Josep Figueras and Joe Kutzin (eds): Funding Health Care:Options for EuropeRichard B. Saltman, Reinhard ... patients attending national hospitals live in the capital andare treated for basic secondary care conditions. In parallel, at the district,regional and national levels, are specialist hospitals, as...