Valuing health systems : a framework for low and middle income countries / Charles Collins, Andrew Green.

By:

Collins, Charles, 1949-

Contributor(s):

Green, Andrew, 1952-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks ; London ; Singapore ; Washington, DC : Sage Publications, 2014Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 338 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9788132119616
8132119614

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Valuing health systemsDDC classification:

362.109172/4 23

LOC classification:

RA441 .C65 2014eb

NLM classification:

WA 395

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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.

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. <div.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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. <div.

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