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Innovations in Health Service Delivery
The Corporatization of Public Hospitals
Av Policy World Bank, Alexander S. Preker
Häftad, 2003
589 kr
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Hospitals remain an important source of critical health care services in most countries, providing both basic and advanced care to their populations. They are often the provider ""of last resort"" for the critically ill and poor. Yet hospitals also make up the largest expenditure category of the …
Global Marketplace for Private Health Insurance
Strength in Numbers
Av Alexander S. Preker, Peter Zweifel m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
589 kr
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Rich or poor, countries around the globe are struggling to find a way to pay for health care. This book presents a compelling analysis that shows private health insurance can play a role in providing more affordable access to health care to more people, no matter what their economic status.
Scaling Up Affordable Health Insurance
Staying the Course
Av Alexander S. Preker, Alexander S. Preker
Häftad, 2013
589 kr
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"Scaling Up Affordable Health Insurance: Staying the Course" is the fifth volume in a series of in-depth reviews on the role of health care financing in improving access for low-income populations to needed care, protecting them from the impoverishing effects of illness, and addressing the …
SUSTAINABILITY: BUSINESS AND INVESTMENT IMPLICATIONS
Av Diane-charlotte Simon, Alexander S Preker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2001 kr
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This book explores the business and investment implications of sustainability, both opportunities and challenges. The volume lays the groundwork for understanding the growing areas of sustainable business and sustainable finance. Over the past few decades, the world has witnessed significant …
FINANCING UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE: A COMPARATIVE REVIEW OF LANDMARK LEGISLATIVE HEALTH REFORMS IN THE OECD
Inbunden, 2018
3550 kr
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The recent expansion of health insurance coverage in the USA under the Affordable Health Care Act, and current threats to reverse the benefits of this reform, have once again focused the world's attention on the difficult challenges faced by other countries trying to provide better access to …
AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM IN HEALTHCARE: FROM COTTAGE INDUSTRY TO CORPORATE POWERHOUSE
Inbunden, 2027
1858 kr
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This volume examines American exceptionalism in healthcare as the historical development of a large, pluralistic, innovation-driven, mixed public-private healthcare industry. Its central argument is that US healthcare should not be understood solely as a delivery system, public program, or cost …
FINANCING THE EDUCATION OF HEALTH WORKERS: GAINING A COMPETITIVE EDGE
Av Alexander S Preker, Hortenzia Beciu m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2044 kr
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This volume reviews the economic underpinnings (investment and financing) and institutional reforms needed to successfully scale up the education of health workers. In this regard, the book examines five major economic and institutional challenges that policy makers face: (1) governance of health …
SUSTAINABILITY: BUSINESS AND INVESTMENT IMPLICATIONS
Av Diane-charlotte Simon, Alexander S Preker m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
881 kr
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This book explores the business and investment implications of sustainability, both opportunities and challenges. The volume lays the groundwork for understanding the growing areas of sustainable business and sustainable finance. Over the past few decades, the world has witnessed significant …
Social Reinsurance
A New Approach to Sustainable Community Health Financing
Av Alexander S. Preker, David M. Dror
Häftad, 2002
470 kr
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This volume views community-based microinsurance as an incremental first step to improved financial protection and better access to health services for the poor. The book focuses on reinsurance as a mechanism for improving micro-level health insurance units.
Private Participation in Health Services
Häftad, 2002
354 kr
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The issue of private participation in health services is often a controversial one, although many countries already make use of private services in key ways to further public aims in health care. As this book demonstrates, private participation is not the same as privatization, and it is often, …
Health Financing for Poor People
Resource Mobilization and Risk Sharing
Av Alexander S. Preker, Guy Carrin
Häftad, 2004
354 kr
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A working group of the World Health Organization's Commission on Macroeconomics and Health presents the conclusions of its research into alternative approaches to domestic resource mobilization, risk protection against the cost of illness, and the efficient use of resources by providers. The report
SPENDING WISELY-BUYING HEALTH SERVICES for the POOR
Av World Bank Group, Alexander S. Preker m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
412 kr
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With a special focus on strategic purchasing and contracting of services from nongovernmental providers, this title reviews ways to make public spending on health care more efficient and equitable in developing countries. It is recommended that: experiments and pilot projects for improving public …
Public Ends, Private Means
Strategic Purchasing of Health Services
Av Alexander S. Preker, Xingzhu Liu m. fl.
2007
485 kr
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Promoting health and confronting disease challenges requires effective action across a range of activities in the health system. Managing scarce resources and health care effectively and efficiently is an important part of this story. This volume presents six regional reviews of country level …
Private Voluntary Health Insurance in Development
Friend or Foe?
Av Alexander S. Preker, Richard M. Scheffler m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
354 kr
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Private voluntary health insurance already plays an important role in the health sector of many low and middle income countries. The book reviews the context under which private insurance could contribute to an improvement in the financial sustainability of the health sector, financial protection …
