Accountability and responsibility in health care issues in addressing an emerging global challenge /
Serious scholarly analyses of the types and roles of accountability in health care first appeared in the late 1980s. That issue, along with the related issue of responsibility in health care, has continued to interest policymakers, analysts and scholars ever since. Indeed, there has been a renewed s...
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Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. :
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| Series: | World Scientific series in global healthcare economics and public policy ;
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Preliminaries and introductory essays. Preface / Richard Scheffler. General introduction and an overview of the volume / Bruce Rosen, Avi Israeli, Stephen Shortell. Accountability in health care reconsidered / Bruce Rosen, David Chinitz, Avi Israeli. Responsibility and accountability - talk is cheap ... / Avi Israeli
- pt. II. From the classics. Introduction to the classic articles / Bruce Rosen. What is accountability in health care? / Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Linda L. Emanuel. The ethics of accountability in managed care reform / Norman Daniels, James Sabin. Assessment and accountability: the third revolution in medical care / Arnold S. Relman. Agency, contract, and governance: shifting shapes of accountability in the health care arena / Carolyn Hughes Tuohy
- pt. III. Country essays. Introduction to the country essays / Bruce Rosen, Suszy Lessof. Canada / Gregory P. Marchildon, Sara Allin. Czech Republic / Ewout van Ginneken, Jan Sturma. England / Anna Maresso. Hungary / Peter Gaal, Szabolcs Szigeti, Matthew Gaskins. Israel / Bruce Rosen, Avi Israeli. Italy / Anna Maresso, Andrea Donatini. Finland / Lauri Vuorenkoski, Philipa Mladovsky. Spain / Sandra Garcia-Armesto ... [et al.]
- pt. IV. Selected papers from the Jerusalem Health Policy Conference. Preface / Shlomo Mor-Yosef. Introduction to the conference papers / Avi Israeli, Stephen Shortell, Bruce Rosen
- Section A. Public accountability: governance and stewardship. Introduction - public accountability / Richard B. Saltman, Gabriel I. Barbash, Jack Habib. Context, culture, and the practical limits of health sector accountability / Richard B. Saltman. Difficulties in making accountability practical / Ezekiel Emanuel. Responsibility and accountability in preventive medicine - are we doing too much or too little? / Siegal Sadetzki. The global shortage of health workers and pay for performance / Richard M. Scheffler. Addressing healthcare inequities in Israel by eliminating prescription drug copayments / Asher Elhayany, Shlomo Vinker. Common trends in public stewardship of health care / Gregory P. Marchildon, Wallace Lockhart.
- Section B. Social support. Introduction - social support / David Chinitz, Martin McKee, Rachel Nissanholtz. Legends of health policy and management / David Chinitz. Solidarity in a changing world / Martin McKee. Health inequity in Israel: past, present, and future / Leon Epstein. Reducing health inequalities in Clalit Health Services: from vision to reality / Ran Balicer ... [et al.]. From measurement to comprehensive policy: the action plan of Maccabi Healthcare Services to increase equity / Rachel Wilf-Miron ... [et al.]. Tackling the inverse care law in the UK / Rosalind Raine. Health rights information from the perspective of Ethiopian immigrants: issues, barriers, and policy recommendations / Nurit Guttman ... [et al.]. Social support, health promotion, and the built environment: vignettes from the active living by design program / Lawrence Brown. The role of regional health improvement collaboratives in health policy, USA / Karen Wolk Feinstein, Susan Elster, Scott Rosenblum
- Section C. Personal responsibility. Introduction - personal responsibility / Yael Ashkenazi, Mordechai Shani, Rosalind Raine. Personal responsibility: preliminary remarks / Mordechai Shani. Personal responsibility for health: a proposal for a nuanced approach / Harald Schmidt. Consumer-driven health care: conquering health care cost and quality demons / Regina E. Herzlinger. Personal responsibility versus responsible options: compliance meets public health in the United States / Joseph R. Betancourt, Marina C. Cervantes. Leadership and the road to personal responsibility for healthy behavior - between autonomy and paternalistic interventions / Gil Siegal, Neomi Siegal. Personal and state responsibilities in vaccination: a two-way road / Baruch Velan. Supporting behavioral change: whose responsibility? / Gene Bishop. Patient empowerment and the doctor-patient relationship / Leah Wapner, Malke Borow
- Section D. Performance management. Introduction - performance management / Alan Garber, Amir Shmueli, Shuli Brammli-Greenberg. Aligning incentives to achieve the performance one cannot (micro) manage / Harold S. Luft. From quality information to quality improvements: an exploratory study of health plan actions / Bruce Rosen, Rachel Nissanholtz. A four-year project for implementing hospital quality indicators in Israel / Jacob Dreiher ... [et al.]. The role of comparative effectiveness research in health reform / Alan M. Garber. Pay for performance: proceed with care! / Alan Maynard
- Conclusions and take-away lessons / Stephen Shortell.