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UNINA9910450455803321 |
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Autore |
Gottret Pablo E (Pablo Enrique), <1959-> |
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Titolo |
Health financing revisited [[electronic resource] ] : a practitioner's guide / / Pablo Gottret, George Schieber |
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Washington, DC, : World Bank, c2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-54258-6 |
9786610542581 |
0-8213-6586-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (340 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Medical care - Finance |
Medical care, Cost of |
Medical policy |
World health |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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