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Health systems across the world face multiple pressures. Input
costs are soaring, systems are struggling to keep-up with
increasing demand for their services and areas of the world still
lack universal health coverage. All of this whilst health
inequalities between the best and worst-off within countries
persist and, in some countries, are even widening. There is a need
to think of new initiatives in response to these global health
challenges. One such response is social finance. Social finance is
about creating social returns. This innovative and rapidly growing
sector promotes new ways of banking and funding social and public
services. However, social finance has an underrecognised, and
potentially underexploited, role in responding to specific aspects
of global health challenges: funding and facilitating access to
health (care) services and acting on health. The objectives of this
book are to conceptualise and evidence different forms of social
finance - microfinance and impact bonds - acting in these ways and
to critically engage with current debates and challenges. With such
evidence to hand, we can either avoid adoption of new trends in
financing public services or, more hopefully, attract greater
policy support and resources for new tools for public health and in
supporting more precarious, but potentially essential, parts of the
finance sector. This book will be essential reading to students,
researchers, policymakers and the general public alike who are
interested in, or who work in, and across, health systems and
social finance.
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.
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.
How are public service organizations governed? How can their
performance be measured, managed and improved? Public services play
a central role in the well-being, sustainability and growth of
communities, cities and nations. Managing to Improve Public
Services shows how management can be harnessed to improve a range
of public services (e.g. policing, health, local government) by
examining them through different theoretical lenses (e.g.
governance, innovation and change, performance metrics and
management). It advances both theory and practice, beyond
traditional public administration and 'new public management', by
considering the interrelationships between governance and public
management. The book is written by a group of leading social
science and management specialists, who were awarded the
prestigious ESRC/EPSRC Public Service Fellow awards as part of the
Advanced Institute of Management Research initiative. It will be of
interest to graduate students, academics and policy makers involved
in public service management and performance measurement.
How are public service organizations governed? How can their
performance be measured, managed and improved? Public services play
a central role in the well-being, sustainability and growth of
communities, cities and nations. Managing to Improve Public
Services shows how management can be harnessed to improve a range
of public services (e.g. policing, health, local government) by
examining them through different theoretical lenses (e.g.
governance, innovation and change, performance metrics and
management). It advances both theory and practice, beyond
traditional public administration and "new public management," by
considering the interrelationships between governance and public
management. The book is written by a group of leading social
science and management specialists, who were awarded the
prestigious ESRC/EPSRC Public Service Fellow awards as part of the
Advanced Institute of Management Research initiative. It will be of
interest to graduate students, academics and policy makers involved
in public service management and performance measurement.
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