eBook - ePub
Credit crunch health care
How economics can save our publicly funded health services
- 160 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Credit crunch health care
How economics can save our publicly funded health services
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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Yes, you can access Credit crunch health care by Cam Donaldson,Donaldson, Cam in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Health Policy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- one Introduction: the quid pro quo of health care
- two Market failure and health care
- three Charging the public: exception or anomaly?
- four Reform, privatisation and those damn doctors
- five The fiscal future of health care: an economist’s rant
- six Economic evaluation
- seven What’s your health worth?
- eight Conclusion
- Appendix: ‘What’s your health worth?’ A questionnaire