Providing health care
Subtitle: the economics of alternative systems of finance and delivery
By: edited by Alistair McGuire, Paul Fenn, and Ken Mayhew.
Contributors: McGuire, Alistair.; Fenn, Paul.; Mayhew, Ken.; Wolfson College (University of Oxford)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Medical care, Cost of -- Great Britain.; Medical care, Cost of -- United States.; Medical care, Cost of -- Europe.
Description: Presents economic arguments which suggest why market failure is so extensive in the health sector and consequently, why regulation in both financing and provision is necessary. Healthcare financing; output measurement; efficiency; performance monitoring.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-281) and index.
"Grew out of the spring 1989 issue of the Oxford review of economic policy. It benefited from the discussion arising from a one-day seminar on the reform of the UK National Health Service held at Wolfson College"--Pref.