Fixing Health Budgets: Experience from Europe and North America - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471964972 ISBN 13: 9780471964971

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

The notion of a fixed health budget seems self–evident: a public or private payer sets a time–tied ceiling on expenditures. Such a definition, while correct, is nonetheless far from sufficient. In actual practice, the key issues revolve around not only the ‘what’, but also the ‘who’ and the ‘how’ of establishing and maintaining periodic health care expenditure ceilings. The design and implementation of fixed budgets in health systems not to mention their success varies considerably between countries, within countries, and between health sub–sectors. Fixing Health Budgets: Experience from Europe and North America reviews the impact of financial reform on the quality and delivery of health care in Austria, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the USA. It outlines how far countries have moved to adopt fixed budgets and how management on a macro–, meso– and micro–level of the various systems is coping with the challenges and conflicts between the providers, patients, community and society. Its message has relevance for health care providers, public policy analysts and health economists worldwide, as well as providers of health education and social services.

About this title

Synopsis:

The impact of financial reform on the quality and delivery of health care now forms a central part of health services research and this book reviews the current studies in this field from the USA, UK and Europe. Its purpose is to establish the future directions of research, to discuss management training required to implement new accounting systems, and to examine how economic reform will affect health policy as a whole.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0471964972
• ISBN 13: 9780471964971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Schwartz Friedrich Wilhelm, Glennerster Howard, Saltman Richard B.