1st Edition

Social Finance and Health

By Neil McHugh, Olga Biosca, Cam Donaldson Copyright 2024
152 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

152 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

152 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Health systems across the world face multiple pressures. Input costs are soaring, systems are struggling to keep up with increasing demand for their services and areas of the world still lack universal health coverage. All of this whilst health inequalities between the best and worst-off within countries persist and, in some countries, are even widening. There is a need to think of new... Read more

Part 1: Introduction 1: Social finance and health Part 2: Conceptual basis 2: Rethinking . . . finance 3: Rethinking . . . the funding of healthcare 4: Rethinking . . . how to act on health inequalities Part 3: Evidence 5: Social finance . . . funding health(care) services 6: Social finance . . . acting on health 7: Social finance . . . facilitating access to health(care) services Part 4: Conclusion 8: Social finance and health . . . new horizon or false dawn?

Biography

Neil McHugh is a Reader at the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland.

Olga Biosca is a Professor of Economics at the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland.

Cam Donaldson is Yunus Chair and Distinguished Professor of Health Economics at the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland and Professor of Health Economics, National Centre for Epidemiology & Public Health (NCEPH), Australian National University.