Health Systems Policy, Finance, and Organization

1st Edition - June 23, 2009
Editors: Guy Carrin, Kent Buse, Kristian Heggenhougen, Stella R. Quah
Language: English
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This volume is unique in its systematic approach to these three pillars of health systems analysis will give readers of various backgrounds authoritative material about subjects adjacent to their own specialties. Assembling such comparative materials is usually an onerous task because so many programs possess their own vocabularies, goals, and methods. This book will provide common grounds for people in programs as diverse as economics and finance, allied health, business and management, and the social sciences, including psychology.

Part I Health policy and public health

Health policy: Overview C Paton; 2. Agenda setting in public health policy J Shiffman; 3. Politics and public health policy reform A Glassman and K Buse; 4. Evidence-based public health policy V Lin; 5. Planning for public health policy A T Green and T N Mirzoev; 6. Role of the State in public health A Alvarez-Rosete; 7. Alma Ata and primary health care: an evolving story J H Bryant and J B Richmond; 8. Health issues of the UN Millennium Development Goals M Claeson and P Folger; 9. Health inequalities P Braveman; 10. Resource allocation: Justice and resource allocation in public health R Rhodes; 11. Human rights approach to public health policy D Tarantola and S Gruskin; 12. Interest groups and civil society in public health policy N Mays; 13. People's Health Movement R Nayaran and C Schuftan; 14. Global health initiatives and public health policy R Brugha; 15. Corruption and the consequences for public health T Vian

Part II Health financing

Health care financing and the health system C Normand and S Thomas; 2. Health care costs, structures and trends T Tan-Torres Edejer, C Garg, P Hernandez, N Van de Maele and C Indikadahena; 3. Determinants of national health expenditure A K Nandakumar and M E Farag; 4. Resource allocation: international perspectives on resource allocation D K Martin and S R Benatar; 5. Cost-influenced treatment decisions and cost-effectiveness analysis D B Evans; 6. Decision analytic modelling P Muennig; 7. Equity in health finance D De Graeve and K Xu; 8. Governance issues in health financing M Lewis and P Musgrove; 9. Transition to universal coverage in developing countries T Ensor; 10. Insurance Plans and Programs: an overview S Gress and J Wasem; 11. Community health insurance in developing countries B Criel, M-P Waelkens, W Soors, N Devadasan and C Atim; 12. The demand for health care G Mwabu; 13. Long term care, organization and financing M Knapp and A Somani; 14. Innovative financing of health promotion V Tangcharoensathien, P Prakongsai, W Patcharanarumol, S Limwattananon and S Buasai

Part III Organization of health services

1. Health system organization models F C J Stevens and J van der Zee; 2. Primary health care D Sanders, N Schaay and S Mohamed; 3. Demand and supply of human resources for health G Dussault and M Vujicic; 4. The role of the private sector in health care provision A Harding and D Montagu; 5. Competition in health care P H Song, J D Barlow, E E Seiber and A S McAlearney; 6. Public-Private mix in health systems C R Keane and M C Weerasinghe; 7. Provider payment and incentives R P Ellis and M M Miller; 8. Managed care S K Glied and K Janus; 9. Economic models of hospital behaviour X Liu and A Mills; 10. Essential drugs policy H Haak; 11. Long term care in health services J Brodsky and A M Clarfield; 12. Long term care for aging populations E Stallard; 13. Patient empowerment in health care J F P Bridges, S Loukanova and P Carrera; 14. Community health workers S B Rifkin

Part IV Key features of health systems around the world

1. National health systems: an overview N Goodwin; 2. Urban health systems: overview D C Ompad, S Galea and D Vlahov; 3. Comparative health systems H Wang ; 4. The health care of indigenous peoples/nations G Bodeker

Kristian Heggenhougen

Affiliations and expertise

Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Stella R. Quah

Stella R. Quah, PhD, is an adjunct professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. She received her BA in Sociology from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, her MSc in Sociology from the Florida State University as a Fulbright-Hays scholar, and her PhD in Sociology from the National University of Singapore (formerly the University of Singapore). Prior to her current appointment, she was a professor at the NUS Department of Sociology, where she was a faculty member from 1977 to 2009. Before joining the sociology department, she worked at the Department of Social Medicine and Public Health of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Singapore. Her work on medical sociology and public health has continued throughout her career. She introduced and taught medical sociology at both the Department of Sociology and the Faculty of Medicine, designing focused medical sociology modules for social science students, nursing students, and public health modules for the Master of Public Health, Department of Community, Occupational, and Family Medicine, NUS, and its successor. When the Graduate School of Medical Studies was set up at the Faculty of Medicine, she taught the medical sociology modules as part of the “Foundations of Public Health” and “Lifestyle and Behaviour in Health and Disease” for the MMed (Public Health). During her sabbaticals from NUS, Professor Quah had appointments by invitation as a research associate and a visiting scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley (1986–1987); the Center for International Studies, MIT; and the Department of Sociology, Harvard University (1993–1994); the Harvard-Yenching Institute (1997); the Stanford Program in International Legal Studies, Stanford University (1997); the National Centre for Developmental Studies, Australian National University (2002); and the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University (2006). Her professional activities include her work as the chair of the Medical Sociology Research Committee (RC15) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) from 1990 to 1994; ISA vice president for research (1994–1998); the chairperson of the ISA Research Council (1994–1998); and consultant to WHO and UN-ESCAP, among other international and national organizations. She is a member of the American Sociological Association and a member of several institutional review boards. On publications, she was an associate editor of International Sociology (1998–2004). She is currently a member of the editorial advisory boards of several international peer-reviewed journals, including the International Advisory Board of the British Journal of Sociology, the Editorial Advisory Board, Health Sociology Review; the Editorial International Advisory Board, Sociology of Health and Illness; Editorial Board, Marriage & Family Review. Her areas of research and consultancy include health services utilization; the governance of epidemics; the role of family caregivers in physical and mental health; self-medication; health risk behaviors (including smoking, alcohol consumption, and psychoactive substance use); sociocultural factors in infectious diseases, heart disease, and cancer. She has published many journal articles, book chapters, and 26 books, 11 of them as author and 15 as editor and coeditor.

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Duke-NUS Graduate School of Medicine Singapore

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