Financing Health Care
New Ideas for a Changing Society
Health Care and Disease Management
1. Auflage Dezember 2007
XII, 279 Seiten, Hardcover
45 Abbildungen
14 Tabellen
Handbuch/Nachschlagewerk
Kurzbeschreibung
As the very first volume of a new comprehensive series on public health issues, this book gives an overview of the very latest aspects on funding and payment mechanisms as well as equity issues of health care around the world.
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Discussing international issues of health care financing, this is the first volume in a completely new public health book series, edited by the Institute of Health Economics (IHE) in Edmonton, Canada.
Starting with various funding methods, the reference also features sections on different health care payment and purchasing mechanisms, as well as equity issues.
Of interest to medical and allied health professionals, and those working in health care industries, insurance, and economics.
Social Health Insurance: Government Funding of Health Care
Private Financing Outside the Publicly Funded Systemmedical Savings Accounts: Promises and Pitfalls
The Economics of Consumer Directed Health Care
DIFFERENT PURCHASING/PAYING MECHANISMS OF HEALTH CARE
Physician Payment Mechanisms
Risk Adjustment in Health Care Markets: Concepts and Applications
Inducing Quality from Health Care Providers in the Presence of Adverse Selection
Prescription Drug Financing
EQUITY ISSUES IN HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Equity of health and health care in Canada in International Perspective
Dr. Jonsson is director and CEO of the Institute of Health Economics, and professor at the University of Alberta, Public Health Sciences. For 20 years he was a professor of Health Economics at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Jonsson was also director of the Swedish Council on Health Technology Assessment (SBU), worked for WHO Euro, was a Health Policy Advisor at the Ministry of Health in Hanoi, Vietnam. His main field of research has been in health economics: cost-effectiveness analysis, and health technology assessment. Jonsson has co-edited 2 well-selling Wiley-VCH titles during his SBU times, "Treating and Preventing Obesity" and "Treating Alcohol and Drug Abuse".
