Brian Abel-Smith

An Introduction To Health

Policy, Planning and Financing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 315g
• ISBN-13: 9780582238657
• ISBN-10: 058223865X
• Artikelnr.: 21286319

Autorenporträt

Brian Abel-Smith

Inhaltsangabe

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