Introduction To Health

<p>This book concerns itself with the key question: how to improve health in a cost effective and politically acceptable way. What makes people healthy? Why are the poor less healthy than the rich? Why do some countries have a better health record than others? <b>An Introduction to Health</b> is divided into four parts comprising the determinants of health, health service planning, health service financing, and controlling costs and securing user-friendly services.</p> <p>PREFACE. PART ONE: The Determinants of Health 1. Introduction<br>2. Inequity in Health<br>3. Lifestyle and Health Promotion<br>4. Planning Health Policy. PART TWO: Planning Health Services<br>5. The History of the Organisation and Financing of Services<br>6. Methods of Health Service Planning<br>7. Planning the Health Work-force<br>8. Planning Primary Health Care<br>9. Planning Pharmaceuticals<br>10. Planning Hospitals. PART THREE: Health Services Financing<br>11. Public Health Expenditure and the Economic Crisis<br>12. Private Health Expenditure<br>13. Compulsory Health Insurance.<br>PART FOUR Controlling Costs and Securing User-friendly Services<br>14. Methods of Paying Providers<br>15. The Efficient Use of Health Resources<br>16. Facing up to the Future.INDEX</p>