An Introduction To Health: Policy, Planning and Financing - Hardcover

Abel-Smith, Prof B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0582238668 ISBN 13: 9780582238664

Publisher: Longman, 1994

Synopsis

How is it possible to improve health in a cost-effective and politically acceptable way? Abel-Smith draws from the experience of developed and developing nations to answer this question. The book covers all key areas of health - how to define it, how to plan for it, how to pay for it. The book provides an international perspective and deals extensively with the complex issue of health financing in accessible, non-technical language. The first part of the book deals with the major determinants of health and health policy in its broadest sense. The second narrows the perspective to health service planning and the third to health service financing. The final part concentrates on how to create both efficient and user-friendly health services. The author is an internationally recognised authority and has advised governments around the world on health care. The book is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in health policy planning and management, in social policy and political science and economics degrees.

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Review

 'comprehensive, comprehensible, reliable and stimulating'  Professor Alan Maynard, Centre for Health Economics, York

Edition details

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0582238668
• ISBN 13: 9780582238664
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248