This volume grows out of an initiative in the World Bank on resource allocation and purchasing ('RAP'), which started in 2000, and continues to publish articles and books related to strategic purchasing. The initiative emerged from such questions in developing economies as: why …
Strategic purchasing of health services involves a continuous search for the best ways to maximize health system performance by deciding which interventions should be purchased, from whom these should be purchased, and how to pay for them. In such an arrangement, the passive cas…
The Settings for Health Care Delivery -- The People Who Provide Health Care -- Medicines, Devices, and Technology -- Government and the Health Care System -- Financing the Health Care System -- Health Care System Performance -- Debates That Have Structured Health Care System Cha…
"This is the ninth edition of An Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System, now titled Jonas' Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System. It was our privilege, and indeed it was an honor, to be asked by Dr. Steven Jonas to coauthor the sixth edition with him in preparation fo…
"This is the ninth edition of An Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System, now titled Jonas' Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System. It was our privilege, and indeed it was an honor, to be asked by Dr. Steven Jonas to coauthor the sixth edition with him in preparation fo…
Health Care Reform Simplified describes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. It translates the law's complex language into terms that are easy to understand, explaining what the new law does, when its provisions take effect, and how to plan for individual, fam…
"Japan has a healthy population compared with the rest of the world, yet the Japanese pay relatively little for medical care. This book analyzes how Japan's health-care system works and how it came into being. Although the authors discuss the drawbacks to Japan's stringent cost-…
