Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity - Couverture rigide

Roberts, Marc J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195162323 ISBN 13 : 9780195162325

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2003

Synopsis

This book presents a new multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reform plans in a wide variety of national circumstances. By focusing on the health care system as a means to an end, the authors provide tools and techniques for designing reforms that will produce real improvements in health sector performance. Integrating economic analysis, political strategy, managerial considerations, and ethical concerns, they offer practical guidance for dealing with the many difficult challenges of health sector reform. The book's methods and approach are based on the authors' extensive experience as researchers, advisors, and teachers of health care reform around the world. Rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach, they stress the need for each nation to develop plans that are consistent with its administrative capacities, economic circumstances, political realities, and social values. The first half of the book reviews general methods for defining problems in an ethically self-reflexive way, diagnosing the causes of those problems, developing relevant policies, and marshalling political support. The second half examines five health sector reform "control knobs" - arenas in which government can act to improve the performance of the health system. Each control knob - financing, payment, organization, regulation, and behavior - is extensively discussed to inform readers about available options and the lessons of international experience. This book draws together an exceptionally wide range of analytical methods and practical experience, and fills a major gap in the literature on health reform and health systems for lower and middle-income nations. It will be of value to policymakers, administrators, consultants, academics, and students alike.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analysing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance, and stresses the need to take account of each country's economic, administrative, and political circumstances. The authors explain how to design effective government interventions in five areas - financing, payment, organization, regulation, and behaviour - to improve the performance and equity of health systems around the world.

Revue de presse

This is a one-of-a-kind, in-depth analysis of the inherent challenges of implementing a healthcare reform system in countries around the world...This is an important contribution to the existing body of literature on global development in healthcare. (Lena Lee-Watson University of Phoenix, Doody's Notes)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195162323
• ISBN 13: 9780195162325
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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