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This title was first published in 2001. Enhancing the quality of
health services remains a key challenge for all health systems,
whatever their stage of development. This collection of
leading-edge research from Europe and America explores both
quantitative and qualitative approaches to identifying and
remedying deficiencies in health care.
This title was first published in 2002: Health systems across the
globe face similar problems: controlling costs while maintaining or
improving health care quality and access. Notwithstanding the
unprecedented health system reforms of the past decades, many
outstanding problems remain in these areas. Drawing on experts from
Europe and America this eclectic collection of leading edge
research examines the impact of organizational development on
improving quality and efficiency in health care. A series of
chapters provide accounts of organizational reconfiguration in the
UK and elsewhere. The contributors examine how structural and
procedural changes must be matched by the development of human
resource services if increases in efficiency and effectiveness are
to be achieved. The book will be of interest to health care
academics, policy makers, managers and practitioners who are
interested in keeping abreast of the latest developments in health
care research.
Controlling costs in health care is rarely something that can be
tackled in isolation. Cost control invariably interacts with issues
of quality and health care access. Thus, this diverse collection of
papers is concerned not just with costs but more importantly with
value. Both macro and micro concerns are covered. At the macro
level, health care reforms (and especially the 'marketisation' of
health care systems) receive some attention. Papers explore how
policy prescriptions get translated and modified during
implementation, and assess how these prescriptions impact on both
the incentive context and subsequent patterns of service delivery.
Resource allocation within bureaucratic health systems continues to
pose problems and these too are analysed with new solutions being
proposed. At the micro level, a number of contributors wrestle with
the difficulties of carrying out the economic evaluation of new
drugs and technologies. In each case, the wider theoretical and
practical implications of balancing costs and benefits are
explored. This collection should prove helpful to health care
policy specialists, managers and researchers interested in gaining
a feel for the real-world application of cost-focused health
services research.
This title was first published in 2002: Health systems across the
globe face similar problems: controlling costs while maintaining or
improving health care quality and access. Notwithstanding the
unprecedented health system reforms of the past decades, many
outstanding problems remain in these areas. Drawing on experts from
Europe and America this eclectic collection of leading edge
research examines the impact of organizational development on
improving quality and efficiency in health care. A series of
chapters provide accounts of organizational reconfiguration in the
UK and elsewhere. The contributors examine how structural and
procedural changes must be matched by the development of human
resource services if increases in efficiency and effectiveness are
to be achieved. The book will be of interest to health care
academics, policy makers, managers and practitioners who are
interested in keeping abreast of the latest developments in health
care research.
Controlling costs in health care is rarely something that can be
tackled in isolation. Cost control invariably interacts with issues
of quality and health care access. Thus, this diverse collection of
papers is concerned not just with costs but more importantly with
value. Both macro and micro concerns are covered. At the macro
level, health care reforms (and especially the 'marketisation' of
health care systems) receive some attention. Papers explore how
policy prescriptions get translated and modified during
implementation, and assess how these prescriptions impact on both
the incentive context and subsequent patterns of service delivery.
Resource allocation within bureaucratic health systems continues to
pose problems and these too are analysed with new solutions being
proposed. At the micro level, a number of contributors wrestle with
the difficulties of carrying out the economic evaluation of new
drugs and technologies. In each case, the wider theoretical and
practical implications of balancing costs and benefits are
explored. This collection should prove helpful to health care
policy specialists, managers and researchers interested in gaining
a feel for the real-world application of cost-focused health
services research.
This title was first published in 2001. Enhancing the quality of
health services remains a key challenge for all health systems,
whatever their stage of development. This collection of
leading-edge research from Europe and America explores both
quantitative and qualitative approaches to identifying and
remedying deficiencies in health care.
This book provides a timely and novel contribution to understanding
and enhancing evidence use. It builds on and complements the
popular and best-selling "What Works?: Evidence-based policy and
practice in public services" (Davies, Nutley and Smith, Policy
Press, 2000), by drawing together current knowledge about how
research gets used and how this can be encouraged and improved. In
particular, the authors explore various multidiscipliary frameworks
for understanding the research use agenda; consider how research
use and the impact of research can be assessed; summarise the
empirical evidence from the education, health care, social care and
criminal justice fields about how research is used and how this can
be improved and draw out practical issues that need to be addressed
if research is to have greater impact on public services. "Using
evidence" is important reading for university and government
researchers, research funding bodies, public service managers and
professionals, and students of public policy and management. It
will also prove an invaluable guide for anyone involved in the
implementation of evidence-based policy and practice.
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