Lessons from Cost-recovery in Health
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 11,9 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Health care reform
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 11,9 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Health care reform
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Author : Andrew Creese
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 1997
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Author : Christina Albertin
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Page : 124 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Public health
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Author : Robert Hecht
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Page : 31 pages
File Size : 11,73 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Public health
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Author : Marie Birkinshaw
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 19,44 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Health education
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Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 2013-05-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309282810
America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual. Best Care at Lower Cost explains that inefficiencies, an overwhelming amount of data, and other economic and quality barriers hinder progress in improving health and threaten the nation's economic stability and global competitiveness. According to this report, the knowledge and tools exist to put the health system on the right course to achieve continuous improvement and better quality care at a lower cost. The costs of the system's current inefficiency underscore the urgent need for a systemwide transformation. About 30 percent of health spending in 2009-roughly $750 billion-was wasted on unnecessary services, excessive administrative costs, fraud, and other problems. Moreover, inefficiencies cause needless suffering. By one estimate, roughly 75,000 deaths might have been averted in 2005 if every state had delivered care at the quality level of the best performing state. This report states that the way health care providers currently train, practice, and learn new information cannot keep pace with the flood of research discoveries and technological advances. About 75 million Americans have more than one chronic condition, requiring coordination among multiple specialists and therapies, which can increase the potential for miscommunication, misdiagnosis, potentially conflicting interventions, and dangerous drug interactions. Best Care at Lower Cost emphasizes that a better use of data is a critical element of a continuously improving health system, such as mobile technologies and electronic health records that offer significant potential to capture and share health data better. In order for this to occur, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, IT developers, and standard-setting organizations should ensure that these systems are robust and interoperable. Clinicians and care organizations should fully adopt these technologies, and patients should be encouraged to use tools, such as personal health information portals, to actively engage in their care. This book is a call to action that will guide health care providers; administrators; caregivers; policy makers; health professionals; federal, state, and local government agencies; private and public health organizations; and educational institutions.
Author : Brian Nolan
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821332405
This report describes and evaluates the ways in which user-fees are currently implemented to finance public health services in Sub- Saharan Africa. It presents the main issues that arise in assessing cost recovery through user fees and evaluates experiences to date. The authors highlight variety of practices encountered in different countries, the too common failure to structure charges so as to promote efficient use, and the lack of effective exemption structures for protecting the poor. The study thoroughly reviews standard cost recovery models and describes an initiative launched in Bamako, Mali, in 1987. Issues, experience, and conclusions are drawn from a sample of 38 countries.
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Income tax deductions for medical expenses
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Author : Annemarie Wouters
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 1994
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Author : William A. Haseltine
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0815724160
"Today Singapore ranks sixth in the world in healthcare outcomes well ahead of many developed countries, including the United States. The results are all the more significant as Singapore spends less on healthcare than any other high-income country, both as measured by fraction of the Gross Domestic Product spent on health and by costs per person. Singapore achieves these results at less than one-fourth the cost of healthcare in the United States and about half that of Western European countries. Government leaders, presidents and prime ministers, finance ministers and ministers of health, policymakers in congress and parliament, public health officials responsible for healthcare systems planning, finance and operations, as well as those working on healthcare issues in universities and think-tanks should know how this system works to achieve affordable excellence."--Publisher's website.