Title: Getting health reform right : a guide to improving performance and equity /
Authors: Roberts, Marc J.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Health care reform; Health Care Reform; Delivery of Health Care; Health Planning; Health Policy
Abstract: This text presents a framework for developing and analysing health sector reform plans in a variety of national circumstances. By focusing on the health care system as a means to an end, the authors provide tools and techniques for designing reforms that should produce real improvements.
Contents: Machine derived contents note: Contents -- I Health System Analysis -- 1. Introduction, 3 -- 2. The Health-Reform Cycle, 21 -- 3. Judging Health-Sector Performance: Ethical Theory, 40 -- 4. Political Analysis and Strategies, 61 -- 5. Goals for Evaluating Health Systems, 90 -- 6. Assessing Health-System Performance, 110 -- 7. From Diagnosis to Health-Sector Reform, 126 -- Ii The Control Knobs -- 8. Financing, 153 -- 9. Payment, 190 -- 10. Organization, 212 -- 11. Regulation, 247 -- 12. Behavior, 281 -- 13. Conclusions, 308 -- Index, 321.