Controlling Costs: Strategic Issues in Health Care Management - 9781138263710

Taylor & Francis

Cost control invariably interacts with issues of quality and health care access and thus this volume deals not simply with costs but, more importantly, with value. Both macro and micro concerns are covered, including health care reforms, the implementation and effects of policy prescriptions and the economic evaluation of new drugs and technologies. > Controlling costs in health care is rarely something that can be tackled in isolation. Cost control invariably interacts with issues of quality and health care access. Thus, this diverse collection of papers is concerned not just with costs but more importantly with value. Both macro and micro concerns are covered. At the macro level, health care reforms (and especially the \u2019marketisation\u2019 of health care systems) receive some attention. Papers explore how policy prescriptions get translated and modified during implementation, and assess how these prescriptions impact on both the incentive context and subsequent patternsi