Download or read book Julius Rosenwald Fund written by Julius Rosenwald Fund and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The economics of GP fundholding written by Andrew Healey and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book EBOOK Reforming Markets In Health Care written by Peter Smith and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2000-02-16 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been an international move towards the creation of explicit markets in health care, in which the purchase of care is separated from provision. While the creation of such markets has undeniably led to improvements in certain aspects of health care, it has also raised important issues that have yet to be resolved - for example, is an escalation of management costs an inevitable consequence of the introduction of a market in health care? What sort of information is needed to make the market function efficiently? Can a market-based system be compatible with society's objectives relating to equity and solidarity? The UK government is introducing reforms to the internal health care market in the UK National Health Service which seek to address concerns such as these, and this book comprises a series of commentaries on their plans from a group of leading health economists. Authors examine the contribution of economics to the debate on the reforms, while seeking to make the analysis accessible to a general audience. Reforming Markets in Health Care is recommended reading for students and researchers of health policy and health economics, as well as health professionals and policy makers at all levels in the health services.
Download or read book Implementing GP Fundholding written by Howard Glennerster and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "GP fundholding was one of the most contentious elements in the British Government's controversial reforms to the NHS. It gave GPs the power to buy services direct from hospitals on behalf of their patients, the most radical change in the funding of the service since 1946. Did this give more choice and power to patients or did it give fundholders' patients an unfair advantage? Is it destabilizing the NHS? Are GPs or district health authorities the best purchasers of health care?" "Professor Glennerster of the LSE has been monitoring the scheme since 1990 as part of a King's Fund-supported research project. This book reports on his research. It traces the origins of the idea and looks at the way it was implemented in three regions. It goes on to study in detail the impact on ten first wave and sixteen second wave practices and examines the financial issues. Finally, the book weighs up the pros and cons of UP fundholding and suggests a way forward." "Implementing GP Fundholding will be of interest to a wide range of health professionals, health authority members and managers. It will also be useful for students of social policy, public administration and health studies."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Controlling Costs Strategic Issues in Health Care Management written by Huw T.O. Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controlling costs in health care is rarely something that can be tackled in isolation. Cost control invariably interacts with issues of quality and health care access. Thus, this diverse collection of papers is concerned not just with costs but more importantly with value. Both macro and micro concerns are covered. At the macro level, health care reforms (and especially the ’marketisation’ of health care systems) receive some attention. Papers explore how policy prescriptions get translated and modified during implementation, and assess how these prescriptions impact on both the incentive context and subsequent patterns of service delivery. Resource allocation within bureaucratic health systems continues to pose problems and these too are analysed with new solutions being proposed. At the micro level, a number of contributors wrestle with the difficulties of carrying out the economic evaluation of new drugs and technologies. In each case, the wider theoretical and practical implications of balancing costs and benefits are explored. This collection should prove helpful to health care policy specialists, managers and researchers interested in gaining a feel for the real-world application of cost-focused health services research.
Download or read book Economics for Health Care Management written by Ann Clewer and published by FT Prenticehall. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors have tackled the subject from the point of view of the profession rather than that of the economist. International concern about health care costs has resulted in widespread policy reforms, most notable has been the introduction of market mechanisms for the provision of public health care services.
Download or read book Modelling the Behaviour of General Practitioners written by Carlos Lerner and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Despite its potentially profound repercussions, the general practitioner fundholding scheme has received relatively little attention from researchers. We provide here a theoretical foundation for empirical studies of fundholding. We begin by reviewing the incentives of the fundholding scheme. The responses of GPs to these incentives depend on the objectives of GPs, raising the questions : what are GPs trying to maximize? what GP objectives are useful in explaining their behaviour? After addressing these questions, we formulate several models of behaviour, focussing in turn on referrals, prescribing, workload, and the agency relationship between the GP and patient. These models illustrate how we can provide a conceptual basis for researching various aspects of fundholding."(...). Author
Download or read book A Practical Guide to Fundholding written by Rod Smith and published by Blackwell Science Incorporated. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Briefing on GP Fundholding written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social Economics of Health Care written by John B Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-05-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For too long now, the issue of health care reform has been dominated by the techniques of mainstream economics and the constant application of the tools of cost-benefit analysis to an area that does not suit it. Issues such as privacy, genetic testing and the allocation of organ transplants require a more sensitive approach to the setting of budgets, and so a more socially responsible attitude towards health care economics is emerging. John Davis has gathered together an impressive range of contributors to explore these phenomena.
Download or read book Reforming Health Care Systems written by British Association for the Advancement of Science. Section F (Economics) and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conference afforded the Economics Section an opportunity to bring to a wider audience some of the current thinking among economists about the issues involved in the development and recent reforms of the National Health Service, and those arising in health care systems worldwide. These issues, addressed in eight contributions, comprise questions of the finance of medical care; the effectiveness of medical care; the need for rationing resources; and the wider determinants of health that go beyond medical care into genetics, the environment, equality in society and strategies for coping with stress. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Competition in the Provision of Health Care written by Allan Bruce and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With mounting political and economic pressures upon health care infrastructure, many developed countries have taken steps to control health care expenditures. This has taken place against a backdrop of increased demand associated with changing demographic structures, technological advance and increasing consumer expectations. Beginning with an analysis of the US, where markets have been an inveterate feature of health care provision, the authors seek to compare and contrast the US experience with developments in Sweden and Britain. The analysis takes place within a general framework which gives recognition to issues such as efficiency and effectiveness, cost control, equity and consumer choice.
Download or read book What the Doctor Ordered written by Audit Commission for Local Authorities and the National Health Service in England and Wales and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effective Commissioning written by Donald Light and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed and extensive critique of the government's proposals for the new NHS. Drawing on comparisons with health care systems around the world, particularly in the USA, it offers an analysis of opportunities and risks in the management of purchasing within the National Health Service.
Download or read book Medical Economics written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economics of Health Care Financing written by Cam Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition examines the economics of health care systems in a non-technical manner, highly accessible for economists and non-economists alike. It is very timely and includes the latest evidence of health care reforms and their implications from a number of countries with different systems.
Download or read book Fundholding a Practice Guide written by Antoinette Pirie and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking account of the rapid development of the fundholding concept, this second edition has been revised and enlarged. New contributors have joined the team, adding the practical experience of second- and third-wave fundholders to those who were in at the beginning.
