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An Introduction to Health Policy, Planning and Financing


AUTHOR:   Brian Abel-Smith
PRICE:  £44.99
ONLINE PRICE:  £40.49
FORMAT:  Paperback (pp: 248) 216 x 138mm
ISBN:  9780582238657
PUB DATE:  24 Oct 1994
AVAILABILITY:  Manufactured on demand
IMPRINT:  Prentice-Hall

DESCRIPTION:
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.

CONTENTS:
PREFACE. PART ONE: The Determinants of Health 1. Introduction 2. Inequity in Health 3. Lifestyle and Health Promotion 4. Planning Health Policy. PART TWO: Planning Health Services 5. The History of the Organisation and Financing of Services 6. Methods of Health Service Planning 7. Planning the Health Work-force 8. Planning Primary Health Care 9. Planning Pharmaceuticals 10. Planning Hospitals. PART THREE: Health Services Financing 11. Public Health Expenditure and the Economic Crisis 12. Private Health Expenditure 13. Compulsory Health Insurance. PART FOUR Controlling Costs and Securing User-friendly Services 14. Methods of Paying Providers 15. The Efficient Use of Health Resources 16. Facing up to the Future.INDEX


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Additional Information:
Illustrations: index Dewey: 362.1068 Author/Title code: INTRODABELSMA