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Getting health reform right: a guide to improving performance and equity Roberts, Marc J.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Oxford University Press 2008Description: xi, 332 pISBN:
  • 9780195371505
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.10425 R6G3
Summary: This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analysing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance and stresses the need to take account of each country's economic, administrative, and political circumstances. The authors explain how to design effective government interventions in five areas - financing, payment, organization, regulation, and behaviour - to improve the performance and equity of health systems around the world. (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/getting-health-reform-right-9780195371505?q=9780195371505&lang=en&cc=in#)
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Table of Contents:

Part I: Health System Analysis

1: Introduction
2: Health-Reform Cycle
3: Judging Health-Sector Performance: Ethical Theory
4: Political Analysis and Strategies
5: Goals for Evaluating Health Systems
6: Assessing Health-System Performance
7: From Diagnosis to Health-Sector Reform

Part II: The Control Knobs

8: Financing
9: Payment
10: Organization
11: Regulation
12: Behavior
13: Conclusions

This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analysing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance and stresses the need to take account of each country's economic, administrative, and political circumstances. The authors explain how to design effective government interventions in five areas - financing, payment, organization, regulation, and behaviour - to improve the performance and equity of health systems around the world.

(https://global.oup.com/academic/product/getting-health-reform-right-9780195371505?q=9780195371505&lang=en&cc=in#)

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