"Reasonable Rationing is must reading for those interested in how to connect theory about fair rationing processes to country-level practices. The five case studies reveal a deep tension between political pressures to accomodate interest group demands and ethically motivated efforts to improve both information and institutional procedures for setting fair limits to care. The authors frame the issues insightfully." - Professor Norman Daniels, Harvard School of Public Health . How are different countries setting priorities for health care?. What role does information and evidence on cost and effectiveness play?. How are institutions contributing to priority setting?. What are the lessons for policy makers?Priority setting in health care is an issue of increasing importance. Choices about the use of health care budgets are inescapable and difficult. A number of countries have sought to strengthen their approach to priority setting by drawing on research-based evidence on the cost and effectiveness of different treatments. This book brings together leading experts in the field to summarize and analyse the experience of priority setting in five countries: Canada, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom. Drawing on literature from a range of disciplines, it makes a significant contribution to the debate on the role of information and institutions in priority setting. Reasonable Rationing has been written with a broad readership in mind. It will be of interest to policy makers, health care professionals and health service managers, as well as students of health and social policy at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Reasonable Rationing (State of Health)

Politics & Social Sciences

Glenn, Robert

Chris Ham

Social Sciences

Open University Press

<p>Bearing and raising children comes with a price for parents-their personal autonomy. Healthy children thrive with love and patience, but what happens when a child isn't born with good health? Robert Glenn and his wife, Lee share their story of raising a child with a rare genetic brain malformation. Rearing Up America relates a journey which has changed their lives. Addressing special needs represents a new reality for parents and care givers. Welcome to the opportunity and challenge of rearing a special-needs child! Welcome to an abundance of love and patience!</p>

Rearing Up America

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Creative Team Publishing

<p>This challenging and highly practical book draws on the findings from an international study designed to help practitioners and researchers understand the factors and processes that enable healthcare organisations in the United States and Europe to achieve - and sustain - high quality services for their users. The in-depth case-studies from seven leading hospitals give an international, evidence-based outlook that focuses on both the organisational and cultural processes of quality improvement. Implication for research and practice are considered, and a checklist of possible challenges has been drawn up to help identify any 'gaps' in initiatives. Healthcare policy makers and shapers including hospital chief executives and NHS directors will find this book enlightening, as will healthcare quality improvement and service development researchers and professionals. Clinicians with an interest in quality improvement will also find much of interest.</p>

Organizing for Quality: The Improvement Journeys of Leading Hospitals in Europe and the United States

Business & Money

Paul Bate

Peter Mendel

Management & Leadership

Radcliffe Publishing

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