Using Health Economics in Health Services
Subtitle: Rationing Rationally? (State of Health)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: September 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780335209835
Subjects: Budgeting & financial management; Central government policies; Economics; Health systems & services; Management & management techniques; Health & Fitness; Medical / Nursing; Health/Fitness; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Healthy Living; Industries - General; Medicaid & Medicare; Health Care Issues; Great Britain; Health care rationing; Health services administration; Medical economics; National health services
First sentence: For 11 years I worked as an accountant in the National Health Service (NHS).
Description: "Using Health Economics in Health Services examines the impact of attempts to use 'rational' health economic analyses on local decision-making in the National Health Service. The book presents findings from an ethnographic study of one health authority and one primary care group to present a rich picture of the processes and contexts of healthcare resource allocation at local level."--Jacket.