This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analysing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance, 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 behaviour - to improve the performance and equity of health systems around the world.

Table of Contents

PART I: HEALTH SYSTEM ANALYSIS; 1. Introduction; 2. Health-Reform Cycle; 3. Judging Health-Sector Performance: Ethical Theory; 4. Political Analysis and Strategies; 5. Goals for Evaluating Health Systems; 6. Assessing Health-System Performance; 7. From Diagnosis to Health-Sector Reform; PART II: THE CONTROL KNOBS; 8. Financing; 9. Payment; 10. Organization; 11. Regulation; 12. Behavior; 13. Conclusions; Index

Reviews

This is a one-of-a-kind, in-depth analysis of the inherent challenges of implementing a healthcare reform system in countries around the world...This is an important contribution to the existing body of literature on global development in healthcare. Lena Lee-Watson University of Phoenix, Doody's Notes