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

by Marc Roberts, William Hsiao, Peter Berman, Michael Reich

Overview

This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance - useful to policymakers, consultants, academics, and students alike - 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 behavior - to improve the performance and equity of health systems around the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199888160
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/23/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

Table of Contents

I Health System Analysis

1 Introduction 3

2 The Health-Reform Cycle 21

3 Judging Health-Sector Performance: Ethical Theory 40

4 Political Analysis and Strategies 61

5 Goals for Evaluating Health Systems 90

6 Assessing Health-System Performance 110

7 From Diagnosis to Health-Sector Reform 126

II The Control Knobs

8 Financing 153

9 Payment 190

10 Organization 212

11 Regulation 247

12 Behavior 281

13 Conclusions 308

Index 321

Editorial Reviews

"This is a book that was developed as a result of an unmet need for an alternative healthcare reform system. It represents the hard work and successful collaboration of noted academicians, institutions, and international groups. This is an important contribution to the existing body of literature on global development in healthcare."—Doody's Health Review

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