UID:
almafu_9959328254102883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 279 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
9783527611294
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3527611290
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9783527616695
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3527616691
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1282118439
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9781282118430
Series Statement:
Health care and disease management,
Content:
This book is the first volume in a completely new public health book series, edited by the Institute of Health Economics (IHE) in Edmonton, Canada. Written by leading experts in the field, Financing Health Care: New Ideas for a Changing Society offers a comprehensive overview of possible health care financing from an international perspective. Starting with various funding methods, this important reference work also features sections on different health care payment and purchasing mechanisms, as well as equity issues. This book is an invaluable resource for all medical and allied health profe.
Note:
Introduction / Åke Blomquist and Egon Jonsson -- Social health insurance: government funding of health care / Åke Blomquist -- Private financing outside the publicly funded system / Mark Stabile -- Prescription drug financing / Steve Morgan -- The economics of consumer-directed health care / Ching- To Albert Ma -- Medical saving accounts: promises and pitfalls / Jeremiah E. Hurley and G. Emmanuel Guindon -- Physician payment mechanisms / Pierre Thomas Léger -- Risk adjustment in health care markets: concepts and applications / Randall P. Ellis -- Inducing quality from health care providers in the presence of adverse selection / Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire -- Equity in health and health care in Canada in international perspective / Eddy van Doorslaer.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Financing health care. Weinheim : Wiley, ©2008 ISBN 9783527320271
Additional Edition:
ISBN 352732027X
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.1002/9783527611294
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9783527611294
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9783527611294
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9783527611294
