The Social Economics of Health Care
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Description
For too long now, the issue of health care reform has been dominated by the techniques of mainstream economics and the constant application of the tools of cost-benefit analysis to an area that does not suit it.
Issues such as privacy, genetic testing and the allocation of organ transplants require a more sensitive approach to the setting of budgets, and so a more socially responsible attitude towards health care economics is emerging. John Davis has gathered together an impressive range of contributors to explore these phenomena.
ISBN
978-0-415-20765-2
Publication Date
2001
Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
City
New York
Disciplines
Business
Comments
List of tables List of figures List of contributors Introduction Pt. I Alternatives to the market view of health care and health economics 1 Should consumer choice be encouraged in health care? / Thomas Rice 2 Communitarianism and health economics / Gavin Mooney 3 Social choice as the synthesis of incommensurable claims: the case of health care rationing / Paul Anand 4 Accounting for fairness and efficiency in health economics / Joshua Cohen Pt. II Resistance to market-based reform of health care systems 5 The National Health Service, the 'internal market' and trust / Robert McMaster 6 Proletarianizing the professionals: the populist assault on discretionary autonomy / Michael Keaney 7 Canada: more state, more market? / Terrence Sullivan Pt. III Issues surrounding health care and aging 8 Age, health and medical expenditure / William A. Jackson 9 The societal costs and implications of using high cost critical care resources for the elderly / Diane M. Dewar 10 Medicare HMOs: the promise and the reality / Rose M. Rubin Pt. IV The challenge of technology 11 Safeguarding genetic information: privacy, confidentiality, and security? / Robert F. Rizzo Index