Fixing Health Budgets
Experience from Europe and North America
Published on 12. July 1996
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-0-471-96497-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
Weight
530 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-96497-1 (9780471964971)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
System Level Issues: Thinking About Planned Markets; Efficiency of Spending Under Fixed Budgets; Regulation, Competition and Equity with Fixed Budgets; Fixed Budgets in the In-patient Sector: The Case of the Netherlands; Fixed Budgets in the Ambulatory Care Sector: The German Experience; Fixed Budgets in the Pharmaceutical Sector I Germany: Effects of Costs and Quality; Federal and Provincial Roles in Canadian Health Care Budgets; Swedish Experiences with Regional Fixed Budgets; Setting Regional Allocations in the UK; Institutional Issues: German Sickness Funds Under Fixed Budgets; The Possible Effects of a New Hospital Financing System in Austria; Fixed Budgets for Fundholding General Practitioners in the UK.