Implementing Planned Markets in Health Care
Subtitle: Balancing Social and Economic Responsibility (State of Health)
Contributors: Casten Von Otter (Editor)
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: June 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780335194261
Subjects: Central government policies; Emergency services; Hospital administration & management; Public finance; Health Care Policy; Medical Economics; Health & Fitness; Medical / Nursing; Health/Fitness; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Issues; Competition; Health care reform; Marketing; Medical care; Medical policy
First sentence: Many countries in Europe and elsewhere are experimenting with, or are considering experimenting with, market-type mechanisms for health service delivery (Hurst 1992; Saltman and von Otter 1992).