Improving cost effectiveness in health care.
Contributors: International Social Security Association.
Series: Studies and research / International Social Security Association ;; no. 19; Studies and research (International Social Security Association) ;; no. 19.
Publisher: International Social Security Association
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Medical care -- Cost effectiveness -- Congresses.; Medical care -- Cost control -- Congresses.; Medical care, Cost of -- Congresses.; Medical economics -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Report of a meeting organized by the International Social Security Association, held in Turku, Sept. 28-30, 1982.
Table of contents: title: Economic efficiency in health care delivery / by Brian Abel-Smith; title: Health care cost containment policies in Canada / by William A. Mennie; title: The growth of health expenditure in Finland 1960-1980 and prospects for curbing its future growth / by Pekka Sirén; title: Measures to improve the economic efficiency of health care delivery in the Federal Republic of Germany / by Eckhardt Westphal; title: Research and policy measures concerned with improving economic efficiency in the health care delivery system in India / by Har Mander Singh; title: Seeking greater efficiency in the British National Health Service / by Ian G. Gilbert; title: Changing incentives for a more responsive and efficient health care system / by Patrice Hirsch Feinstein; title: Establishment of medical and paramedical profiles in Belgium / by François Praet; title: Management indicators and primary health care / by Jacques Gourault; title: Hospital care budget control through utilisation rationing / by Aviva Ron; title: Health, economics, and social welfare / by Jürgen Hartmann.