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Policy, performance and finance are the issues currently headlining
the healthcare agenda and are likely to remain so for the
foreseeable future. Drawing on experiences from around the world,
this essential collection examines the key strategic issues facing
health services and analyzes the policy implications of leading new
research. The volume brings together 16 newly-commissioned studies
from leading experts in health studies, in particular: policy,
economics, health care management and health services research.
International in perspective and scope, it draws on empirical
evidence from East and West Europe, Canada, New Zealand and the
Middle East. Themes covered include: health policy and technology
assessment, policy and performance, international policy
innovation, and organizational innovation. This ground-breaking
collection will prove a valuable guide for policy makers, managers,
practitioners, researchers and students.
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.
The title was first published in 2001: The papers in this volume,
selected from nearly 100 submissions to the Fourth International
Conference on Strategic Issues in Health Care Management, reflect
the work taking place in health economics. The first five chapters
in the collection examine the role of economics within clinical
guidelines and suggest methods of improving the quality of economic
evaluation which is now at the centre of decision-making in the
NHS. The second section of the book is comprised of two papers on
inequalities and access. The third part contains four papers, two
of which cover reviews and tackle some theoretical issues regarding
demand, and two are applied case studies. The fourth section
assesses performance, and the final four papers review health
reforms in a number of countries including the UK, Canada, France
and Turkey.
Policy, performance and finance are the issues currently headlining
the healthcare agenda and are likely to remain so for the
foreseeable future. Drawing on experiences from around the world,
this essential collection examines the key strategic issues facing
health services and analyzes the policy implications of leading new
research. The volume brings together 16 newly-commissioned studies
from leading experts in health studies, in particular: policy,
economics, health care management and health services research.
International in perspective and scope, it draws on empirical
evidence from East and West Europe, Canada, New Zealand and the
Middle East. Themes covered include: health policy and technology
assessment, policy and performance, international policy
innovation, and organizational innovation. This ground-breaking
collection will prove a valuable guide for policy makers, managers,
practitioners, researchers and students.
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: The papers in this volume,
selected from nearly 100 submissions to the Fourth International
Conference on Strategic Issues in Health Care Management, reflect
the work taking place in health economics. The first five chapters
in the collection examine the role of economics within clinical
guidelines and suggest methods of improving the quality of economic
evaluation which is now at the centre of decision-making in the
NHS. The second section of the book is comprised of two papers on
inequalities and access. The third part contains four papers, two
of which cover reviews and tackle some theoretical issues regarding
demand, and two are applied case studies. The fourth section
assesses performance, and the final four papers review health
reforms in a number of countries including the UK, Canada, France
and Turkey.
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.
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