Health systems policy, finance, and organization
Contents
Part I: Health policy and public health
- Health policy: Overview (C Paton)
- Agenda setting in public health policy (J Shiffman)
- Politics and public health policy reform (A Glassman and K Buse)
- Evidence-based public health policy (V Lin)
- Planning for public health policy (A T Green and T N Mirzoev)
- Role of the State in public health (A Alvarez-Rosete)
- Alma Ata and primary health care: an evolving story (J H Bryant and J B Richmond)
- Health issues of the UN Millennium Development Goals (M Claeson and P Folger)
- Health inequalities (P Braveman)
- Resource allocation: Justice and resource allocation in public health (R Rhodes)
- Human rights approach to public health policy (D Tarantola and S Gruskin)
- Interest groups and civil society in public health policy (N Mays)
- People's Health Movement (R Nayaran and C Schuftan)
- Global health initiatives and public health policy (R Brugha)
- 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)
- Health care costs, structures and trends (T Tan-Torres Edejer, C Garg, P Hernandez, N Van de Maele and C Indikadahena)
- Determinants of national health expenditure (A K Nandakumar and M E Farag)
- Resource allocation: international perspectives on resource allocation (D K Martin and S R Benatar)
- Cost-influenced treatment decisions and cost-effectiveness analysis (D B Evans)
- Decision analytic modelling (P Muennig)
- Equity in health finance (D De Graeve and K Xu)
- Governance issues in health financing (M Lewis and P Musgrove)
- Transition to universal coverage in developing countries (T Ensor)
- Insurance Plans and Programs: an overview (S Gress and J Wasem)
- Community health insurance in developing countries (B Criel, M-P Waelkens, W Soors, N Devadasan and C Atim)
- The demand for health care (G Mwabu)
- Long term care, organization and financing (M Knapp and A Somani)
- Innovative financing of health promotion (V Tangcharoensathien, P Prakongsai, W Patcharanarumol, S Limwattananon and S Buasai)
Part III: Organization of health services
- Health system organization models (F C J Stevens and J van der Zee)
- Primary health care (D Sanders, N Schaay and S Mohamed)
- Demand and supply of human resources for health (G Dussault and M Vujicic)
- The role of the private sector in health care provision (A Harding and D Montagu)
- Competition in health care (P H Song, J D Barlow, E E Seiber and A S McAlearney)
- Public-Private mix in health systems (C R Keane and M C Weerasinghe)
- Provider payment and incentives (R P Ellis and M M Miller)
- Managed care (S K Glied and K Janus)
- Economic models of hospital behaviour (X Liu and A Mills)
- Essential drugs policy (H Haak)
- Long term care in health services (J Brodsky and A M Clarfield)
- Long term care for aging populations (E Stallard)
- Patient empowerment in health care (J F P Bridges, S Loukanova and P Carrera)
- Community health workers (S B Rifkin)
Part IV: Key features of health systems around the world
- National health systems: an overview (N Goodwin)
- Urban health systems: overview (D C Ompad, S Galea and D Vlahov)
- Comparative health systems (H Wang)
- The health care of indigenous peoples/nations (G Bodeker)