1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456251303321

Titolo

L'appui au développement communautaire [[electronic resource] ] : une expérience de communication en Afrique de l'Ouest / / sous la direction de Lucie Alexandre et Guy Bessette

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ottawa, Ont., : Centre de recherches pour le développement international, c2000

ISBN

1-280-71734-3

9786610717347

1-55250-028-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BessetteGuy <1952->

AlexandreLucie

Disciplina

307.1/412/0966

Soggetti

Communication in community development - Africa, West

Communication in rural development - Africa, West

Community development - Developing countries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Comprend des réf. bibliogr. (p. 213-214).

Nota di contenuto

Table des matières; Préface; Remerciements et dédicace; Chapitre 1 Les Centres de lecture et d'animation culturelle et la recherche en communication pour le développement; Chapitre 2 Un cadre conceptuel et méthodologique de la communication pour le développement; Chapitre 3 Les recherches-actions dans les milieux; Chapitre 4 Discussion des recherches-actions; Chapitre 5 Leçons et recommandations; Annexe 1 Liste des projets par pays; Annexe 2 Liste des participants et des personnes-ressources; Bibliographie;

Sommario/riassunto

Information alone does not ensure sustainable development. People and communities also need to be actively engaged in the processes, and their participation should be harnessed through communications activities designed for development purposes. Who should be made responsible for initiating these activities? What are the best conditions for launching them? What are the limits of these communications activities, and more importantly, do they generate benefits for



community development? This book reports on an action-research conducted in West Africa by 23 centres de lecture et d'animation cultu

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785543403321

Autore

Ho Lok-sang

Titolo

Health policy and the public interest / / Lok Sang Ho

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-21502-6

1-283-58644-4

9786613898890

0-203-09562-6

1-136-21503-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Classificazione

BUS000000BUS069000

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

Medical policy

Public interest

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 indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 Functional health and the health stock; 2 A framework for risk and health policy analysis; 3 Insurance, moral hazard and adverse selection; 4 Health policy evaluation; 5 Health policy in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: settling down to a model?; 6 Publicly funded healthcare systems: United Kingdom and Canada; 7 Singapore: Medisave, Medishield, Medifund and ElderShield; 8 Universal publicly funded basic healthcare in Australia and New Zealand

9 Three European countries: France, Switzerland and Sweden10 The American market-based system; 11 The way forward; Notes; References; Subject index; Name index

Sommario/riassunto

"This book is written with an acute awareness of the need for new insight to ensure (1) universal protection in basic healthcare; (2) providing choice; (3) efficient production and consumption of



healthcare services; (4) financial sustainability of the healthcare system. Defining the public interest as the welfare of the "representative individual" with no vested interest who imagines himself to have equal chance of being anyone in society, this book explores alternative ways of finance and delivery, the optimal interface between the public healthcare sector and the private healthcare sector, and that between public insurance and private insurance. The book includes a theoretical but non-technical section that distinguishes between the stock of health and functional health, proposes a utility maximizing/behavioural framework to explain behaviour and the role of health policy and investigates the nature of risk and alternative insurance mechanisms. The book illustrates with a number of country studies, covering a large range of healthcare systems from the American and the European systems to various Asian systems as well as those of Australia and New Zealand. The survey of country experiences reinforces the theoretical conclusions about the role of the public healthcare sector and social insurance and that of the private market. The book highlights the importance of and the workability of "pricing right" and "capping right": pricing standard or basic healthcare services at the right price can contain both demand-side and supply-side moral hazard and lead to more efficient production and consumption of healthcare services; capping annual eligible healthcare expenses will provide effective protection against financial risks. The proposal of lifetime healthcare supplement offers greater choice. Private caregivers and insurers supplement the public healthcare system by offering more choices and premium services, as well as additional protection"--