Credit crunch health care
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Credit crunch health care

How economics can save our publicly funded health services

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Credit crunch health care

How economics can save our publicly funded health services

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About This Book

World-leading health economist Cam Donaldson defends NHS-type systems on the same basis as their detractors: economic efficiency. However, protecting government funding of health care is not enough: scarcity has to be managed. Donaldson goes on to show how we can get more out of our systems by addressing issues of value for money. In particular, he demonstrates what has been achieved through health care reform but questions how much more this can deliver relative to getting serious about priority setting.The issues addressed in the book have global relevance and this accessible book will therefore appeal to the public, health professionals and health policy specialists.

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Publisher
Policy Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9781447304524
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of figures, tables and boxes
  7. About the author
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Foreword
  10. one Introduction: the quid pro quo of health care
  11. two Market failure and health care
  12. three Charging the public: exception or anomaly?
  13. four Reform, privatisation and those damn doctors
  14. five The fiscal future of health care: an economist’s rant
  15. six Economic evaluation
  16. seven What’s your health worth?
  17. eight Conclusion
  18. Appendix: ‘What’s your health worth?’ A questionnaire