Purchasing Population Health: Paying for Results

by David A. Kindig

David Kindig's training as a physician, a health care executive, and his academic work in the field of health policy came together to inspire this innovative approach for extracting a higher quality of care at reasonable cost by establishing clear health outcomes measures as a purchasing standard. Despite the massive resources it consumes, the American health care system remains under stress. While we are global leaders in technical accomplishments...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047210893X
• ISBN13: 9780472108930
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Well written, innovative strategies for health care delivery

Dr. Kindig examines the current paradigm of health care delivery in the United States and offers well developed, innovative strategies for re-thinking our current situation. Through his application of in-depth economic analysis of medical care in this and other countries, and his willingness to look difficult problems squarely in the face, he asserts a host of long term policy and economic objectives which policy makers would do well to study. His ideas are not easy to implement, but we are quickly approaching a critical period of health care delivery which demands difficult answers.