Getting Health Reform Right A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity

By William Hsiao, Peter Berman, Marc J. Roberts

Book Overview

This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance - useful to policymakers, consultants, academics, and students alike - and stresses the need to take account of each country's economic, administrative, and political circumstances. The authors explain how to design effective government interventions in five areas - financing, payment, organization, regulation, and behavior - to improve the performance and equity of health systems around the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019537150X
• ISBN13: 9780195371505
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"