Introduction To Health

Policy, Planning and Financing

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

This book concerns itself with the key question: how to improve health in a cost effective and politically acceptable way. What makes people healthy? Why are the poor less healthy than the rich? Why do some countries have a better health record than others? An Introduction to Health is divided into four parts comprising the determinants of health, health service planning, health service financing, and controlling costs and securing user-friendly services.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-06-28
Mått:138 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:246
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138172999

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Brian Abel-Smith

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PREFACE. PART ONE: The Determinants of Health 1. Introduction2. Inequity in Health3. Lifestyle and Health Promotion4. Planning Health Policy. PART TWO: Planning Health Services5. The History of the Organisation and Financing of Services6. Methods of Health Service Planning7. Planning the Health Work-force8. Planning Primary Health Care9. Planning Pharmaceuticals10. Planning Hospitals. PART THREE: Health Services Financing11. Public Health Expenditure and the Economic Crisis12. Private Health Expenditure13. Compulsory Health Insurance.PART FOUR Controlling Costs and Securing User-friendly Services14. Methods of Paying Providers15. The Efficient Use of Health Resources16. Facing up to the Future.INDEX