1st Edition

An Introduction To Health Policy, Planning and Financing

By Brian Abel-Smith Copyright 1994
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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

Biography

Brian Abel-Smith