Healthcare Management Managed Care Organisations and Instruments
This textbook on Healthcare Management provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the organisational forms and management instruments implemented in managed care. Within the international discussion on the structure of healthcare systems, managed
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Volker Eric Amelung
Healthcare Management Managed Care Organisations and Instruments Second Edition
Springer Texts in Business and Economics
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Volker Eric Amelung
Healthcare Management Managed Care Organisations and Instruments Second Edition
With collaboration of Charity M. Agbor, Mirella Cacace, Axel Mühlbacher, Ulla Tangermann, Anika Meißner, Andreas Domdey, Christian Krauth, Susanne Bethge, Peter Berchtold, and Christoph Wagner
Volker Eric Amelung Institute for Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health Systems Research Hannover Medical School Hannover, Germany Institute of Health Sciences Research INAV GmbH Berlin, Germany
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Foreword
Not long ago, “management” of healthcare seemed pretty much to begin and end with hospital administration. In the last four decades, the situation has changed dramatically and for three main reasons. First, healthcare costs that rise steadily as a share of stagnant national economies call attention to who is running the show and to the importance of getting “provider dominance” and “professional sovereignty” under control in order to achieve better value for money. Second, accumulating research and evidence that disclose mysteries and dysfunctions (for instance, practice variations among small areas) show that caregiving is not simply a matter of pristine professional j
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