What Makes a Good Healthcare System?: Comparisons, Values, Drivers

ISBN-13: 9781857759211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 224 str.

Gillies; Alan Gillies

Opis

What Makes a Good Health Care System? examines the various assumptions that underpin the different views of what makes a good health care system. The national systems in the UK, Australia and Canada are thoroughly examined. Each country has a different view of what a good health care system is trying to achieve, and the book elucidates these by highlighting key policy documents and comments from key stakeholders. Case studies emphasise the diverse needs and expectations of individuals, examining and comparing concepts of health needs, quality as a measure of 'good-ness' and the various ideas on Gold Standards. This book will be valuable reading for all healthcare managers and clinicians with management responsibilities, as well as policy makers and shapers and all those with a general interest in health.

Spis treści

1. People in their daily lives 2. People meet the healthcare system: two case studies 3. What is a good healthcare system? 4. Using the model to analyse healthcare systems 5. Values underpinning policy development 6. What is the reality in the UK? 7. What is the reality in Australia? 8. What is the reality in Canada? 9. Driver 1: finance 10. Driver 2: scandals 11. Driver 3: ideology 12. So what is a good healthcare system?

O autorze

Alan Gillies