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Zusatztext This is a one-of-a-kind, in-depth analysis of the inherent challenges of implementing a healthcare reform system in countries around the world...This is an important contribution to the existing body of literature on global development in healthcare. Klappentext This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance - useful to policymakers, consultants, academics, and students alike - and stresses the need to take account of each country's economic, administrative, and political circumstances. The authors explain how to design effective government interventions in five areas - financing, payment, organization, regulation, and behavior - to improve the performance and equity of health systems around the world. Zusammenfassung This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analysing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance, and stresses the need to take account of each country's economic, administrative, and political circumstances. The authors explain how to design effective government interventions in five areas - financing, payment, organization, regulation, and behaviour - to improve the performance and equity of health systems around the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Health System Analysis 1: Introduction 2: Health-Reform Cycle 3: Judging Health-Sector Performance: Ethical Theory 4: Political Analysis and Strategies 5: Goals for Evaluating Health Systems 6: Assessing Health-System Performance 7: From Diagnosis to Health-Sector Reform Part II: The Control Knobs 8: Financing 9: Payment 10: Organization 11: Regulation 12: Behavior 13: Conclusions Index
