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Valuing health systems : a framework for low and middle income countries / Charles Collins and Andrew Green.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collins, Charles, 1949- author.
- Green, Andrew, 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--Developing countries.
- Medical care.
- Medical ethics--Developing countries.
- Medical ethics.
- Medical policy--Developing countries.
- Medical policy.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Developing Countries.
- Health Policy.
- Medical Subjects:
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Developing Countries.
- Health Policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (357 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi, India : Sage Publications, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The underlying themes of this book are twofold: it emphasises the importance of understanding and strengthening health systems to improve a population's health in low and middle income countries; it promotes the values of equity and the right to health, efficiency, participative and accountable decision-making, and the need for a long-term perspective. These values are examined in relation to governance, policy making and planning, financing, managing, and intersectoral action for health and health service delivery, with a chapter devoted to each. By permeating the health system with these values, the authors seek to develop a good health system. This would have access to a level of resources commensurate with the national level of income, and use of these resources in the most efficient way to ensure an equitable and maximized level of health, sustainable over the long term. Moreover, it would empower the health system members in areas concerning their health and contributes towards wider social cohesion and mores.
- Contents:
- Setting the scene
- Health systems : an overview
- Governance
- Financing
- Health policymaking and planning
- Valuing management
- Inter-sectoral action for health and health service delivery
- Strengthening health systems through a value-based approach.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 81-321-1961-4
- OCLC:
- 881162091
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