Using Health Economics In Health Services: Rationing Rationally? (State of Health Series) - Tapa blanda

McDonald, Ruth

 
9780335209835: Using Health Economics In Health Services: Rationing Rationally? (State of Health Series)
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ISBN 10: 0335209831 ISBN 13: 9780335209835
Editorial: Open University Press, 2002

Sinopsis

Using Health Economics in Health Services examines the impact of attempts to use 'rational' health economic analyses on local decision-making in the National Health Service. The book presents findings from an ethnographic study of one Health Authority and one Primary Care Group to present a rich picture of the processes and contexts of healthcare resource allocation at local level.

The conclusion of the book is that it is extremely difficult to use 'rational' solutions to resource allocation dilemmas at local level in the modern state. The adoption by local decision-makers of what appear to be non-rational coping strategies is essential to the maintenance of service delivery in the context of resource scarcity. Paradoxically, attempts to impose 'rational' decision-making threaten to undermine the precarious stability of the very systems they seek to improve. In this sense, the pursuit of rationality may itself be an irrational act.

Written in an engaging and lively style, the book will be accessible to general readers as well as specialists in the field. It has been designed for use by students of health economics, health policy, public administration and health services management and will be of interest to practitioners and researchers in these fields.

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Acerca del autor

Ruth McDonald is a politics graduate and former finance director in the National Health Service (NHS). She left the NHS to complete a MSc in Health Economics at York University, and is currently an NHS/PPP fellow in Primary Care research at Manchester University. Prior to this she held posts at Liverpool University and the Nuffield Institute for Health in Leeds.

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Editorial
Open University Press
Año de publicación
2002
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0335209831
ISBN 13 
9780335209835
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Número de páginas
208
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