Credit crunch health care

Autorentext

Cam Donaldson holds the Yunus Chair in Social Business and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University. From 2002-10, he held the Health Foundation Chair in Health Economics at Newcastle University, where he was founding director of the Institute of Health and Society and professor in the Newcastle University Business School. He held the Svare Chair in Health Economics at the University of Calgary from 1998-2002, having first become a professor of health economics in 1996 while at the Health Economics Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen.

Klappentext

The credit crunch continues to threaten publicly-funded health care. In this timely and accessible book, Cam Donaldson considers value for money in the NHS and what can be achieved through reform and priority setting.

Inhalt

Introduction; Market failure in health care; Charging the public: exception or anomaly?; Reform, privatisation and those damn doctors; The fiscal future of health care: an economist's rant! Economic evaluation; What's your health worth?; Where now for valuing health?.