1. Functional Health and the Health Stock 2. A Framework for Risk and Health Policy Analysis 3. Insurance, Moral Hazard, and Adverse Selection 4. Health Policy Evaluation 5. Health Policy in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan 6. Publicly Funded Healthcare Systems: UK and Canada 7. Singapore: Medisave, Medishield, Medifund, and Elderfund 8. Universal Publicly Funded Basic Healthcare in Australia and New Zealand 9. Three European Countries: France, Switzerland, and Sweden 10. The American Market-based System 11. The Way Forward
Biography
Lok-sang Ho, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Public Policy Studies, Lingnan University, is the author of Principles of Public Policy Practice and Health Care Financing and Delivery: A Model for Reform, and has published about 90 academic papers in journals and book chapters. Prof. Ho has been active in community and professional service. He served as President of the HK Economic Association for eight years through 2007. He has been a member of the Standing Commission on Civil Service Salaries and Conditions of Service since 2006. He had also served as an Advisor for the Hong Kong Institute of Monetary Research, a member of HK Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council, and part time member of the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong SAR Government. Before his appointment at Lingnan University in 1995 he was Senior Lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, which he joined in 1983 following a career in the Ontario Government and the Ontario Economic Council as Economist and Research Officer. He holds a Ph.D from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong. He writes a weekly column in China Daily, HK edition, occasional columns in SCMP, Oriental Daily, among others, and contributes to Seeking Alpha on international economic affairs as an author.
'... provides a refreshing, clear approach to the complex evolution and interactions of policy and its ultimate affordability, sustainability, and efficacy. In this book, Lok Sang Ho helps us to assess how well policies in different places meet the requirements of the 'public interest.'....Very importantly, he ponders how policy is likely to be fit for purpose in the future. Students, researchers, and practitioners at many levels ...will benefit enormously from reading this work.' — David R.Phillips, Professor, Lingnan University
