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Credit crunch health care

How economics can save our publicly funded health services

Cam Donaldson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bristol University Press

Published:16th Feb '11

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World-leading health economist Cam Donaldson defends NHS-type systems on the same basis as their detractors: economic efficiency. However, protecting government funding of health care is not enough: scarcity has to be managed. Donaldson goes on to show how we can get more out of our systems by addressing issues of value for money. In particular, he demonstrates what has been achieved through health care reform but questions how much more this can deliver relative to getting serious about priority setting. The issues addressed in the book have global relevance and this accessible book will therefore appeal to the public, health professionals and health policy specialists.

" ‘Credit Crunch Health Care’ could be read by anybody and everybody involved in the provision of health care in the UK and worldwide. And I believe it should." Chris Sampson on The Academic Health Economists' blog

ISBN: 9781847427533

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160 pages