Financing health care : new ideas for a changing society / / edited by Mingshan Lu and Egon Jonsson

• Pubblicazione: Weinheim, [Germany] : , : Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, , 2008; ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.10681
• Soggetto topico: Medical care - Canada - Finance; Medical care, Cost of - Canada; Health insurance - Canada
• Persona (resp. second.): LuMingshan; JonssonEgon
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Financing Health Care; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Health Systems Reform; 1.2 Aging Populations and Advanced Medical Technology; 1.3 Decentralization; 1.4 The Content of this Book; References; 2 Social Health Insurance: Government Funding of Health Care; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Health Services, Health Insurance, and Market Failure; 2.3 Different Models for Government Funding of Health Care; 2.4 Conclusion: The Future of Social Health Insurance in Canada; References; 3 Private Financing Outside the Publicly Funded System ; 3.1 Introduction and the Evolution of Private Financing in Canada3.2 Reviewing Economic Theory and Evidence on Parallel Public and Private Financing Structures; 3.3 OECD Evidence on Private Financing; 3.4 Overall Conclusions and Directions for Further Study; References; 4 Prescription Drug Financing; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Drug Expenditures and Financing in Canada and Abroad; 4.3 Unique Aspects of Pharmaceuticals and the Pharmaceutical Sector; 4.4 Considerations for Pharmaceutical Financing Reform; 4.5 Conclusion; References; 5 The Economics of Consumer-Directed Health Care; 5.1 Introduction ; 5.2 Consumer-Preventive Care Decisions5.3 Selection and Cross-Subsidization; 5.4 Health Care Demand and Non-Linear Prices; 5.5 Empirical Studies of Consumer-Directed Health Care; 5.6 Conclusion; References; 6 Medical Savings Accounts: Promises and Pitfalls; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 MSA Financing Internationally; 6.3 MSA Financing and System Performance; 6.4 Conclusions; References; 7 Physician Payment Mechanisms; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 A Basic Model of Health-Care Provision and Consumption; 7.3 Traditional Fee-For-Service (FFS); 7.4 Capitation and Fully Prospective Payments ; 7.5 Mixed-Payment Systems7.6 Concluding Remarks; References and Footnotes; 8 Risk Adjustment in Health Care Markets: Concepts and Applications; 8.1 Overview; 8.2 Introduction; 8.3 Theory; 8.4 Estimation Issues; 8.5 Country Experience with Risk Adjustment; 8.6 Conclusions; References; 9 Inducing Quality from Health Care Providers in the Presence of Adverse Selection; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 The Basic Adverse Selection Problem; 9.3 Dealing with Adverse Selection; 9.4 The Regulator Can Observe Quality, But Consumers Cannot: Choosing What to Report ; 9.5 Consumers Can Observe Quality and the Regulator Can Observe "Signals" About Consumers' Types: Risk Adjustment9.6 Concluding Remarks; References; 10 Equity in Health and Health Care in Canada in International Perspective; 10.1 Overview; 10.2 Introduction: Canada's Health Care System and Equity; 10.3 Income-Related Inequity in Access to, and Delivery of, Care; 10.4 Inequalities in Health and Health Outcomes; 10.5 Conclusion and Discussion; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Discussing international issues of health care financing, this is the first volume in a completely new public health book series, edited by the Institute of Health Economics (IHE) in Edmonton, Canada.Starting with various funding methods, the reference also features sections on different health care payment and purchasing mechanisms, as well as equity issues.Of interest to medical and allied health professionals, and those working in health care industries, insurance, and economics.
• Titolo autorizzato: Financing Health Care
• ISBN: 1-282-11843-9; 9786612118432; 3-527-61129-0; 3-527-61669-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910144847603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Health Care and Disease Management