Credit Crunch Health Care: How Economics Can Save Our Publicly Funded Health Services

ISBN-13: 9781847427526 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 160 str.

Cam Donaldson

Opis

The credit crunch is a threat to publicly-funded health care. In this book, the author defends our systems on the same basis as public service detractors; economic efficiency. However, protecting government funding of health care is not enough. He goes on to show how we can get more out of our systems by addressing issues of value for money.

Spis treści

Foreword by Sir Michael Rawlins; Introduction: the quid pro quo of health care; Market failure in health care; Charging the public: exception or anomaly?; Reform, privatisation and those damn doctors; The fiscal future of health care: an economist's rant; Economic evaluation; What's your health worth?; Conclusion; Appendix: 'What's your health worth?' A questionnaire