Providing health care : the economics of alternative systems of finance and delivery
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Providing health care : the economics of alternative systems of finance and delivery
Oxford University Press, 1991
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"Grew out of the spring 1989 issue of the Oxford review of economic policy. It benefited from the discussion arising from a one-day seminar on the reform of the UK National Health Service held at Wolfson College"--Pref
Bibliography: p. [261]-281
Includes index
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Description
This text on the economics of the financing and provision of health care comes at a time when reforms of the NHS are being proposed. choice of various health care systems can be evaluated. The book attempts t o provide a perspective within which the choice of various healt care systems can be evaluated. Economic arguments are presented which suggest why market failure is relatively extensive in this sector and, consequently, why regulation in both financing and provision is necessary. There is discussion of various problems in the health sector output measurement, the definition of efficiency and the problems of monitoring performance. The reforms of the UK health care sector are discussed in the light of these difficulties and a number of chapters compare the UK health care system with alternative systems in Europe and the USA. An historical perspective of previous systems in the UK is also given.
Table of Contents
- The economics of health care, A.McGuire et al
- the demand for health care and health insurance, Tim Besley
- the normative economics of health care finance and provision, A.J.Culyer
- output measurement for recourses allocation decisions in health care, Michael Drummond
- QALS - where next?, Gavin Mooney and Jan Abel Olson
- equity in the finance and delivery of health care - some tentative cross-country comparison, Adam Wagstaff et al
- comparing health service efficiency across countries, David Parkin
- post-war American health care - the many costs of market failure, Lois Quam
- health care financing reform in the United States during the 1980s - lessons for Great Britain, Richard Scheffler
- a mixed economy of health care - Britain's health service in the inter-war period, Alastair Gray.
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