Credit Crunch Health Care: How Economics Can Save Our Publicly Funded Health Services

by Cam Donaldson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847427529
• ISBN13: 9781847427526
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"