Introduction to Health - Policy, Planning and Financing

Informationen zum Autor Brian Abel-Smith Klappentext Examines the question governments everywhere are asking: how to improve health in a cost effective and politically acceptable way. Zusammenfassung Examines the question governments everywhere are asking: how to improve health in a cost effective and politically acceptable way. Inhaltsverzeichnis PREFACE. PART ONE: The Determinants of Health 1. Introduction2. Inequity in Health3. Lifestyle and Health Promotion4. Planning Health Policy. PART TWO: Planning Health Services5. The History of the Organisation and Financing of Services6. Methods of Health Service Planning7. Planning the Health Work-force8. Planning Primary Health Care9. Planning Pharmaceuticals10. Planning Hospitals. PART THREE: Health Services Financing11. Public Health Expenditure and the Economic Crisis12. Private Health Expenditure13. Compulsory Health Insurance.PART FOUR Controlling Costs and Securing User-friendly Services14. Methods of Paying Providers15. The Efficient Use of Health Resources16. Facing up to the Future.INDEX

Product details

• Authors: Abel Smith, Brian Abel-Smith
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2016
• EAN: 9781138172999
• ISBN: 978-1-138-17299-9
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; MEDICAL / Administration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Budgeting, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Emergency Management, Medical administration & management, Emergency Services, Budgeting & financial management, Budgeting and financial management, Medical administration and management