Full Description
Understanding Health Systems and Welfare explores the ways in which we understand health care systems and recommends how individuals, health care providers and society as a whole can best use the resources within the systems for maximum benefit.
In this enlightening book, Bent Greve examines health care systems from a multitude of perspectives, considering factors such as demographic changes, the steering of health care systems, the value of preventative measures and the challenges and opportunities presented by technological developments. Greve discusses ways in which societies can ensure equitable access to treatment for all generations, income-bands and levels of education. The book recognises that each welfare state manages a different framework, financial model and structural organisation, and encourages individuals and health care providers to better understand the resources available in order to maximise the system's potential and ensure an overall improvement in wellbeing.
This book is an informative read for students, academics and researchers working in welfare sociology, health sociology, social policy, health policy and sustainable development. Accessible and engaging, it will also be of interest to professionals and policymakers working in the health care and welfare sectors.
Contents
Contents
Preface
1 Why health and health care is an important topic
2 Demographic change and its implications
3 Structure, steering and development of health care systems
4 The Bermuda Triangle: providers, consumers and funders
of health care
5 Prevention - a way forward?
6 Quality of health care
7 Do providers deliver what they promise?
8 Inequality in health and health care
9 The economic steering of the health care system
10 Technology and new treatments - challenges or
opportunities for health care?
11 Concluding remarks: understanding health systems and
welfare
Index
