Purchasing to Improve Health Systems Performance

by Figueras

• ISBN13: 9780335213672
• ISBN10: 0335213677
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

Purchasing is championed as key to improving health systems performance. However, despite the central role the purchasing function plays in many health system reforms, there is very little evidence about its development or its real impact on societal objectives. This book addresses this gap and provides: A comprehensive account of the theory and practice of purchasing for health services across Europe An up-to-date analysis of the evidence on different approaches to purchasing Support for policy-makers and practitioners as they formulate purchasing strategies so that they can increase effectiveness and improve performance in their own national context An assessment of the intersecting roles of citizens, the government and the providers Written by leading health policy analysts, this book is essential reading for health policy makers, planners and managers as well as researchers and students in the field of health studies.Contributors: Toni Ashton, Philip Berman, Michael Borowitz, Helmut Brand, Reinhard Busse, Andrea Donatini, Martin Dlouhy, Antonio Duran, Tamas Evetovits, Andre P. van den Exter, Josep Figueras, Nick Freemantle, Julian Forder, Peter Gaal, Chris Ham, Brian Hardy, Petr Hava, David Hunter, Danguole Jankauskiene, Maris Jesse, Ninel Kadyrova, Joe Kutzin, John Langenbrunner, Donald W. Light, Hans Maarse, Nicholas Mays, Martin McKee, Eva Orosz, John Ovretveit, Dominique Polton, Alexander S. Preker, Thomas A. Rathwell, Sabine Richard, Ray Robinson, Andrei Rys, Constantino Sakellarides, Sergey Shishkin, Peter C. Smith, Markus Schneider, Francesco Taroni, Marcial Velasco-Garrido, Miriam Wiley

Table of Contents

List of tables

List of boxes

List of figures

List of contributors Series Editors' introduction

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Organization of purchasing in Europe

Purchasing to improve health systems

Theories of purchasing

Role of markets and competition

Purchasers as the public's agent

Purchasing to promote population health

Steering the purchaser: Stewardship and government

Purchasers, providers and contracts

Purchasing for quality of care

Purchasing and paying providers

Responding to purchasing: Provider perspectives

Index

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