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Health Care and Public Policy (Paperback)
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Health Care and Public Policy (Paperback)
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Health care is absorbing an increasing share of resources in all
countries. It is the task of public policy to ensure that the
nation secures good quality attention at an affordable price. This
book, distinguishing clearly between health status and health care,
examines the ways in which governments can keep down morbidity and
mortality while also ensuring that treatments are medically
justifiable, economically cost-effective and socially equitable.
Ignorance, uncertainty, asymmetrical information, professional
monopolies, insurance and poverty all mean that the market by
itself is not enough. Pragmatic intervention is also required to
ensure that well-being and social justice are delivered in
combination with value for money.Health Care and Public Policy is a
comprehensive and intelligible cross-disciplinary account of the
objectives of health care policy (medical, social, economic) and of
the policy-tools that government can employ (cost-benefit analysis,
entry barriers, competition) in order to ensure that scarce
resources are not wasted nor needy social groups deprived of basic
and affordable care. Health policy is hotly debated in all
countries. This cross-national book is timely and relevant. It will
be of special interest to academics and students who want to deepen
their understanding of health economics, social policy and
administration, public policy and government, political economy and
the logic of institutions.
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