Policy, Organisation and Incentives in Health Systems
Health system policies should incentivise high-quality health care in areas of highest need at the lowest feasible cost. Our aim is to expand our understanding of policies that result in healthier populations and achieve sustainability while being responsive to patients’ needs.
Using Consumer Preferences in Health Care Decision Making: The Application of Conjoint Analysis
1 April 1996
The idea that clients or users of public services might legitimately have opinions about how they should be delivered is a relatively new one in the…
The Future of Primary Care
1 January 1996
The chapters in this book are based on the contributions to a conference organised by the Office of Health Economics and held at the Zoological Society…
Health Care as a Handicraft Industry
9 January 1995
The seemingly inexorable rise in real health care costs (i.e. over and above the rate of inflation) has been a cause of great concern to governments throughout…
Financing Health Care in the UK: A Discussion of NERA’s Prototype Model to Replace the NHS
1 January 1995
There is little doubt that throughout the world there is a growing concern about health services and the provision of health care. It is of interest that the worry seems to be independent of the precise structure of health services, the form of provision, and how it is paid for. This suggests two things. One is that the causes of the problem (or problems) are fundamental, and are not entirely, or mainly attributable, to the precise position in any individual country. The second is that each country may have something to learn from the others.
Health Information and the Consumer
1 January 1995
This book contains the proceedings of a conference held by the Office of Health on 30 November 1994 entitled ‘Health Information and the Consumer’ and chaired…
Hypothecated Health Taxes: An evaluation of recent proposals
1 January 1995
The subject of earmarked or hypothecated taxes dropped out of the mainstream of public finance theory a great many years ago. It is doubtful whether many…
The Impact of Behavioural and Biomedical Advance on Health Trends over the Next 25 Years
11 January 1994
Recent decades have seen a significant improvement in the health status of citizens in Western Europe and the USA. This is evident from death rate statistics…
Heath Information and the Consumer
5 January 1994
In the last decade society has become more health conscious than ever before. A major factor in this change of attitude is the widespread availability of…
A Doctor Looks at Health Economics
1 March 1994
Inequality in health is back on the political agenda in the UK. Three factors have made inequality an issue – firstly, concern that the internal market…