The Global Challenge of Health Care Rationing
Author: Angela Coulter
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 292
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdds to the debate on priority setting by looking at experience from other countries.
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Author: Angela Coulter
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 292
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdds to the debate on priority setting by looking at experience from other countries.
Author: Ham, Chris
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Published: 2003-05-01
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0335211852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHealth care rationing is a reality in much of the world, and priority setting is an issue of increasing importance. Choices about the use of health care budgets are inescapable and difficult. This study look at priority setting in the health services of several countries.
Author: Beatrix Hoffman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-09-15
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 0226348032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 2010 Affordable Care Act is a sweeping reform to the US health care system. Hoffman offers an engaging and in-depth look at America's long tradition of unequal access to health care. She argues that two main features have characterized the US health system: a refusal to adopt a right to care and a particularly American type of rationing. Unlike rationing in most countries, which is intended to keep costs down, rationing in the United States has actually led to increased costs, resulting in the most expensive health care system in the world.
Author: David J. Hunter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-08
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1317888383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing the Governments health reforms in 1991 rationing has been put firmly on the agenda. This book identifies and clarifies the numerous political and ethical issues surrounding rationing in healthcare. Drawing upon international examples it offers a critical overview of the approaches to rationing and makes practical proposals for its management. Desperately Seeking Solutions challenges the assumption that all health services are inherently subject to rationing as demand invariably outstrips supply and examines this within a comparative framework. The author critically evaluates the extent to which rationing has always existed and should exist within the NHS, although until recently it operated on an implicit rather than explicit basis and was bound up with clinical judgements rather than purely financial considerations. The author questions whether calls for explicit rationing are actually desirable and potentially feasible.
Author: Johann-Matthias Schulenburg (Graf von der.)
Publisher: IOS Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781586034658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHealthcare regulations should guarantee that everybody has access to appropriate healthcare. The main goals for healthcare are: Equal access to health care for everyone; Cost-efficient production of health services and Cost-control of public expenditure for medical services. Especially cost-control seems to be a global problem. One of the key issues in the debate on how to improve healthcare is rationing. It is an important challenge to understand the various methods of rationing in medical care, to analyse the effects of rationing and the ways to harmonize the various rationing cultures in Europe. This publication gives a comprehensive overview of the perception of different population groups in an international context and it shows how the different population and occupational groups estimate the possibilities, forms and also limits rationing in the near future. Patients who are affected by rationing decisions could ask for treatment in foreign European countries. In order to limit social inequities caused by capacity problems in less rationed countries it is important in a first step to demonstrate the differences in rationing procedures between European countries.
Author: Henry J. Aaron
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780815701200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Examines the use of rationing as a means to curb health care spending, using the experience of Great Britain to highlight the promises and pitfalls of this approach"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Larry R. Churchill
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Dranove
Publisher: FT Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780130671653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the world's leading healthcare economists offers a hard-nosed analysisof the frightening reality of soaring healthcare costs--and shows how it willfeel to be at the mercy of a system that can't afford to cure anyone.
Author: Angela Coulter
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 292
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdds to the debate on priority setting by looking at experience from other countries.
Author: Barbara J. Sowada
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2003-07-30
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0313072469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the complex interrelationships that inform the health care system. Health care, like all social systems, is a product of thought. Up to now, our collective thinking has been based on trying to manage parts, not the whole. This book inquires into four age-old questions that shape all health care systems: What is health? What is care? Who is responsible? How much is enough? Americans have the wealthiest health care system in the world, yet the health status of Americans ranks in the lowest quartile among the world's 25 industrialized nations and 45 million Americans are without health insurance. Today's cost, quality, and access problems are inter-related and can be traced to taken-for-granted assumptions and health care's outmoded organizing concepts: reductionism and materialism. Greater fragmentation of care, an over-dependence on technology, inattention to social and environmental determinants of health, and serious economic and moral dilemmas are some of the results of the last 40 years of piecemeal political and economic reform. This book has three purposes. The first is to help the reader see healthcare as a complex system—a part in a larger whole—and to show how answers to the questions, What is health? What is care? Who is responsible? How much is enough? implicitly define the purpose, effectiveness, efficiency, and fairness of a health care system. The second is to show that today's access, cost, and quality problems are interrelated, and arise from outmoded concepts, unquestioned assumptions, and a long trail of inconsistent and contradictory answers to the four questions. The third purpose is to acquaint readers with both the personal and societal challenges of finding coherent answers to the four questions raised above and to describe some of the budding experimental solutions that challenge traditional conventions and assumptions.