Optimizing Health
Subtitle: Improving the Value of Healthcare Delivery
Contributors: Franz Porzsolt (Editor); Robert M. Kaplan (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: September 19, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780387339207
Subjects: Health systems & services; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Administration; Industries - General; Public Health; Business & Economics-Industries - General; Medical / Administration; Medical / Public Health; Medical-Public Health; Health Care Delivery; Evaluation; Medical care; Medical economics
Description: As health care costs soar there is increasing interest in examining what society and, particularly, patients receive in return for these expenditures. Optimizing Health brings together the best thinking from both sides of the Atlantic to explore these issues. It employs disciplinary perspectives from economics, ethics, philosophy, psychology, clinical practice, and epidemiology to explore various ways that value for patients have and can be determined. It concludes with a discussion of changes required in practice, research, and health care systems to maximize the outcomes received from the provision of medical care services from the patient.s perspective.