Transitions in health systems
Subtitle: dealing with persistent problems
By: [edited by] Jacqueline E.W. Broerse and Joske F.G Bunders
Publisher: VU University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9789086594641
Subjects: Biomedical Technology; Health Care Reform; Methods; Health Services Needs and Demand; Medical care; Health care reform; Organizational Innovation
Description: Nowadays, health care is confronted with a wide variety of problems: new emerging or re-emerging diseases, rising costs, increasingly complex management processes, and so on. Since the 1990s most nations have tried to deal with problems by reforming their health systems. However, many of these reforms did not succeed in realizing the desired gains in efficiency and equity. This book aims at exploring persistent problems in health systems and health system reform from an innovative perspective - the perspective of the new, emerging scientific field of system innovation and transition theory. This generates new and refreshing insights on how to innovate and strengthen health systems. In particular, strategies that could be labeled transition experiments - involving all relevant stakeholders exploring new constellations in niches - are described and analyzed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.