An Introduction To Health: Policy, Planning and Financing

by Abel-Smith Brian and Brian Abel-Smith

Book Overview

This book concerns itself with the key question: how to improve health in a cost effective and politically acceptable way. What makes people healthy? Why are the poor less healthy than the rich? Why do some countries have a better health record than others? An Introduction to Health is divided into four parts comprising the determinants of health, health service planning, health service financing, and controlling costs and securing user-friendly services.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 058223865X
• ISBN13: 9780582238657
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"