World-leading health economist Cam Donaldson defends NHS-type systems on the same basis as their detractors: economic efficiency. However, protecting government funding of health care is not enough: scarcity has to be managed. Donaldson goes on to show how we can get more out of our systems by addressing issues of value for money. In particular, he demonstrates what has been achieved through health care reform but questions how much more this can deliver relative to getting serious about priority setting.
The issues addressed in the book have global relevance and this accessible book will therefore appeal to the public, health professionals and health policy specialists.
Table of Content
Foreword by Sir Michael Rawlins; Introduction: the quid pro quo of health care; 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?; Conclusion; Appendix: ‘What’s your health worth?’ A questionnaire
About the author
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.
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