What Makes a Good Healthcare System? - Comparisons, Values, Drivers

This book is designed to meet two conflicting goals: to be readable and interesting enough to be read by anyone interested in health and healthcare system in UK, and to be rigorous and evidence based sufficient to be taken seriously by the author's academic peers.

List of contents

1. People in their daily lives 2. People meet the healthcare system: two case studies 3. What is a good healthcare system? 4. Using the model to analyse healthcare systems 5. Values underpinning policy development 6. What is the reality in the UK? 7. What is the reality in Australia? 8. What is the reality in Canada? 9. Driver 1: finance 10. Driver 2: scandals 11. Driver 3: ideology 12. So what is a good healthcare system?

About the author

Alan Gillies

Summary

This book is designed to meet two conflicting goals: to be readable and interesting enough to be read by anyone interested in health and healthcare system in UK, and to be rigorous and evidence based sufficient to be taken seriously by the author's academic peers.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Gillies, Gillies Alan
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2003
• EAN: 9781857759211
• ISBN: 978-1-85775-921-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Weight: 410 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Canada, Australia, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Health systems & services, Health systems and services