Governing Health Systems

Author : Martyn Sama,Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782869781825

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Governing Health Systems in Africa by Martyn Sama,Vinh-Kim Nguyen Pdf

Drawing on various disciplinary perspectives, this book re-focuses the debate on what makes a good health system, with a view to clarifying the uses of social science research in thinking about health care issues in Africa. The explosion of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the persistence of malaria as a major killer, and the resurgence of diseases like tuberculosis which were previously under control, have brought about changes in the health system, with implications for its governance, especially in view of the diminished capacity of the public health facilities to cope with a complex range of expanded needs. Government responsibilities and objectives in the health sector have been redefined, with private sector entities (both for profit and not-for profit) playing an increasingly visible role in health care provisions. The reasons for collaborative patterns vary, but chronic under-funding of publicly financed health services is often an important factor. Processes of decentralisation and health sector reforms have had mixed effects on health care system performance; while private health insurance markets and private clinics are pointers to a growing stratification of the health market, in line with the intensified income and social differentiation that has occurred over the last two decades.These developments call for health sector reforms.

Author : Gregory P. Marchildon,Sara Allin,Sherry Merkur
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Health care reform
ISBN : 9781487508081

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Health Systems in Transition Third Edition by Gregory P. Marchildon,Sara Allin,Sherry Merkur Pdf

This book provides insight into how the Canadian health care system is financed and organized, how it has evolved over time, and how well it performs relative to peer countries.

Author : Elias Mossialos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521761383

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Health Systems Governance in Europe by Elias Mossialos Pdf

Health system governance in Europe : the role of European Union law and policy / Elias Mossialos ... [et al.] -- Health care and the EU : the law and policy patchwork / Tamara Hervey and Bart Vanhercke -- EU regulatory agencies and health protection / Govin Permanand and Ellen Vos -- The hard politics of soft law : the case of health / Scott L. Greer and Bart Vanhercke -- Public health policies / Martin McKee, Tamara Hervey and Anna Gilmore -- Fundamental rights and health care / Jean McHale -- EU competition law and public services / Tony Prosser -- EU competition law and health policy / Julia Lear, Elias Mossialos and Beatrix Karl -- Public procurement and state aid in national health care systems / Vassilis Hatzopoulos --Private health insurance and the internal market / Sarah Thomson and Elias Mossialos -- Free movement of services in the EU and health care / Wouter Gekiere, Rita Baeten and Willy Palm -- Enabling patient mobility in the EU : between free movement and coordination / Willy Palm and Irene A. Glinos -- The EU legal network on e-health / Stefaan Callens -- EU law and health professionals / Miek Peeters, Martin McKee and Sherry Merkur -- The EU pharmaceuticals market : parameters and pathways / Leigh Hancher

Author : Michael R. Reich,Keizo Takemi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351861717

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Governing Health Systems by Michael R. Reich,Keizo Takemi Pdf

Governing Health Systems: For Nations and Communities Around the World examines the complex relationships between governance and performance in community and national health systems. Each chapter provides an in-depth case study, using both qualitative and quantitative methods, on health systems in many countries, including Uganda, Ghana, India, Zambia, Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia, Brazil, Palestine, and South Korea. The chapters were written by former Takemi Fellows, who were mid-career research fellows at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and their colleagues. This case study approach yields important findings as well as contextual insights about the challenges and accomplishments in addressing governance issues in national and community health systems around the world. Health policymakers around the world are struggling to address the multiple challenges of governing health systems. These challenges also represent important themes for the research mission of the Takemi Program in International Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. This book is based on the program’s thirtieth anniversary symposium held in October 2013 at Harvard. The studies presented in this book—deep examinations of illustrative examples of health system governance for communities and nations—contribute to our knowledge about global health and assist policymakers in dealing with the complex practical problems of health systems. In short, this book addresses central questions about governing health systems—and why governance matters.

Author : John Lavis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12
Category : Medical care
ISBN : 1927565111

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Ontario's Health System by John Lavis Pdf

Author : Antonio Durán,Stephen Wright
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030281724

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Understanding Hospitals in Changing Health Systems by Antonio Durán,Stephen Wright Pdf

“This timely book provides insight into the changing role of the ‘hospital’ in the face of technological, organizational innovation and ever-tightening health budgets.”James Barlow, Imperial College Business School, UK “This book covers various relevant aspects of the hospital in different states and contexts. Underlining the importance of business models for future hospitals, this publication presents models of care from a historic and a current perspective. All authors possess a deep insight into different health care systems, not only as scholars but as experts working for world-renowned health policy institutions such as the World Health Organization, the World Bank or the European Observatory for Health Systems.”Siegfried Walch, Management Center Innsbruck, Austria “For an organisation like mine, representing those involved in the strategic planning of healthcare infrastructure, this book provides invaluable insights into what really matters – now and for the future – in the complex and contentious field of hospital development.”Jonathan Erskine, European Health Property Network, Netherlands This book seeks to reframe current policy discussions on hospitals. Healthcare services turn expensive economic resources—people, capital, pharmaceuticals, energy, materials—into care and cure. Hospitals concentrate the use and the cost of these resources, particularly highly-trained people, expensive capital, and embedded technologies. But other areas of health, such as public health and primary care, seem to attract more attention and affection, at least within the health policy community. How to make sense of this paradox? Hospitals choose, or are assigned, to deliver certain parts of care packages. They are organised to do this via “business models”. These necessarily incorporate models of care – the processes of dealing with patients. The activity needs to be governed, in the widest senses. Rational decisions need to be taken about both the care and the resources to be used. This book pulls these elements together, to stimulate a debate.

Author : Miguel A. González Block,Hortensia Reyes Morales,Lucero Cahuana-Hurtado,Alejandra Balandrán,Edna Méndez
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781487538439

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Health Systems in Transition by Miguel A. González Block,Hortensia Reyes Morales,Lucero Cahuana-Hurtado,Alejandra Balandrán,Edna Méndez Pdf

This is the first book to fully review the Mexican health system, its organization and governance, health financing, health care provision, health reforms, and health system performance. The book is based on the most recent data and focuses on the three main components that constitute Mexico’s health system: 1) employment-based social insurance programs, 2) public assistance services for the uninsured, and 3) a private sector composed of service providers, insurers, and pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and distributors.

Author : Carey Doberstein
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781487507251

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Distributed Democracy by Carey Doberstein Pdf

This is the first book-length work to analyse Ontario's Local Health Integration Networks

Author : Michael Moran
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Cross-Cultural Comparison
ISBN : 0719042976

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Governing the Health Care State by Michael Moran Pdf

This book represents the first comparative study of how health policy is made in leading industrial nations. Using detailed case histories of the UK, the US and Germany, it shows that health care systems and modern states are indissolubly bound together. The author explains how the health care state originated before the rise of democracy, and demonstrates that it has had to confront the twin pressures of democratic politics and competitive capitalism. It focuses on three important arenas of health care politics--the government of consumption, the government of doctors, and the government of medical technology--and illustrates how these three arenas intersect.

Author : Thomas Rice,Pauline Rosenau,Lynn Y. Unruh,Andrew J. Barnes
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-20
Category : Health care reform
ISBN : 9781487526450

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Health Systems in Transition by Thomas Rice,Pauline Rosenau,Lynn Y. Unruh,Andrew J. Barnes Pdf

The book provides a thorough review of the U.S. health care system, including its organization and financing, care delivery, recent reforms, and an evaluation of the system's performance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Health services administration
ISBN : 1887748083

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Governing Health Systems by Anonim Pdf

Author : Martyn Sama,Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782869784031

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Governing Health Systems in Africa by Martyn Sama,Vinh-Kim Nguyen Pdf

Drawing on various disciplinary perspectives, this book re-focuses the debate on what makes a good health system, with a view to clarifying the uses of social science research in thinking about health care issues in Africa. The explosion of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the persistence of malaria as a major killer, and the resurgence of diseases like tuberculosis which were previously under control, have brought about changes in the health system, with implications for its governance, especially in view of the diminished capacity of the public health facilities to cope with a complex range of expanded needs. Government responsibilities and objectives in the health sector have been redefined, with private sector entities (both for profit and not-for profit) playing an increasingly visible role in health care provisions. The reasons for collaborative patterns vary, but chronic under-funding of publicly financed health services is often an important factor. Processes of decentralisation and health sector reforms have had mixed effects on health care system performance; while private health insurance markets and private clinics are pointers to a growing stratification of the health market, in line with the intensified income and social differentiation that has occurred over the last two decades.These developments call for health sector reforms.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Roundtable on Value and Science-Driven Health Care
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309154161

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Digital Infrastructure for the Learning Health System by Institute of Medicine,Roundtable on Value and Science-Driven Health Care Pdf

Like many other industries, health care is increasingly turning to digital information and the use of electronic resources. The Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care hosted three workshops to explore current efforts and opportunities to accelerate progress in improving health and health care with information technology systems.

Author : Yanzhong Huang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136155482

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Governing Health in Contemporary China by Yanzhong Huang Pdf

The lack of significant improvement in people’s health status and other mounting health challenges in China raise a puzzling question about the country’s internal transition: why did the reform-induced dynamics produce an economic miracle, but fail to reproduce the success Mao had achieved in the health sector? This book examines the political and policy dynamics of health governance in post-Mao China. It explores the political-institutional roots of the public health and health care challenges and the evolution of the leaders’ policy response in contemporary China. It argues that reform-induced institutional dynamics, when interacting with Maoist health policy structure in an authoritarian setting, have not only contributed to the rising health challenges in contemporary China, but also shaped the patterns and outcomes of China’s health system transition. The study of China’s health governance will further our understanding of the evolving political system in China and the complexities of China’s rise. As the world economy and international security are increasingly vulnerable to major disease outbreaks in China, it also sheds critical light on China’s role in global health governance.

Author : OECD,World Health Organization
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264805903

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Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies by OECD,World Health Organization Pdf

This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.