Regulating Entrepreneurial Behaviour in European Health Care Systems

Informationen zum Autor Richard B. Saltman is a Research Director of the European Observatory on Health Care Systems and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Rollins School of Public Health! Emory University in Atlanta! Georgia. Reinhard Busse is Head of the Madrid hub of the European Observatory on Health Care Systems and Associate Professor for Epidemiology! Social Medicine and Health Systems Research at the Medizinische Hochschule in Hannover. Elias Mossialos is a Research Director of the European Observatory on Health Care Systems and Senior Lecturer in European Health Policy! Department of Social Policy and Administration as well as Director of LSE Health at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Klappentext * What have been the major trends in entrepreneurial behaviour and regulation in European health care? * To what degree do approaches to regulation and entrepreneurialism differ amongst subsectors and countries across Europe? * What does the evidence show about successes and failures! and which successful options are open to policy-makers? A wide range of entrepreneurial initiatives have been introduced within European health care systems during the last decade. While these initiatives promised more efficient management! they also triggered concerns about reduced equity and quality in service provision. This book explores emerging regulatory strategies that seek to capture the benefits of entrepreneurial innovation without sacrificing the core policy objectives of a socially responsible health care system. It opens with an extended essay on current trends and evidence across health care subsectors and across countries! presenting a wide range of alternatives for policy makers! and assessing their relative advantages and disadvantages. It then reviews entrepreneurialism and regulation in specific contexts (such as hospitals! primary health care! social services) and considers related issues including the impact of corruption and the potential lessons from deregulation of public utilities. Regulating Entrepreneurial Behaviour in European Health Care Systems brings together the perspectives of politics! economics! management! medicine! public health and law and will be a valuable resource for students! academics! practitioners and policy makers concerned with health policy and health reform. Zusammenfassung Explores regulatory strategies that seek to capture the benefits of entrepreneurial innovation without sacrificing the core policy objectives of a socially responsible health care system. This title is suitable for students! academics! practitioners and policy makers concerned with health policy and health reform. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on contributors Series editors' preface Foreword Part one: Balancing regulation and entrepreneurialism in Europe's health sector: theory and practice Part two: Conceptual issues Good and bad health sector regulation an overview of the public policy dilemmas What can we learn from the regulation of public utilities? Accreditation and the regulation of quality in health services Corruption as a challenge to effective regulation in the health sector Regulating entrepreneurial behaviour in hospitals theory and practice Entrepreneurial behaviour in pharmaceutical markets and the effects of regulation Regulating entrepreneurial behaviour in social care Regulating the entrepreneurial behaviour of third-party payers in health care The regulatory environment of general practice an international perspective Regulating entrepreneurial behaviour in oral health care services References Index. ...

Product details

• Authors: Saltman, Richard B Saltman, Richard B. Busse Saltman
• Assisted by: Reinhard Busse (Editor), Richard B. Saltman (Editor)
• Publisher: Open University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.01.2002
• EAN: 9780335209224
• ISBN: 978-0-335-20922-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Studies on the African Economi; Studies on the African Economi
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches