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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450455803321

Autore

Gottret Pablo E (Pablo Enrique), <1959->

Titolo

Health financing revisited [[electronic resource] ] : a practitioner's guide / / Pablo Gottret, George Schieber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : World Bank, c2006

ISBN

1-280-54258-6

9786610542581

0-8213-6586-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchieberGeorge

Disciplina

362.1068/1

Soggetti

Medical care - Finance

Medical care, Cost of

Medical policy

World health

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Overview; 1 Health transitions, disease burdens, and health expenditure patterns; Figures; Tables; 2 Collecting revenue, pooling risk, and purchasing services; Boxes; 3 Risk pooling mechanisms; 4 External assistance for health; 5 Improving health outcomes; 6 Increasing the efficiency of government spending; 7 Financing health in low-income countries; 8 Financing health in middle-income countries; 9 Financing health in high-income countries; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This overview of health financing tools, policies and trends--with a particular focus on challenges facing developing countries--provides the basis for effective policy-making. Analyzing the current global environment, the book discusses health financing goals in the context of both the underlying health, demographic, social, economic, political and demographic analytics as well as the institutional realities faced by developing countries, and assesses policy options in the context of global evidence, the international aid architecture, cross-sectoral interactions, and countries' macroeconomic