The facts are hard to ignore: rising rates of chronic disease, epidemic obesity and diabetes, a widening longevity gap between rich and poor, health care ‘reforms’ at odds with patient interests. In response, Policy Innovations for Health argues that a nation’s well-being mirrors the health of its citizens – and calls not only for improvement in our health care systems but for a complete reconceptualization of health and social policy, starting with expanded, interrelated roles for health care providers, consumers, and policymakers. The long-term strategies outlined in this book emphasize a stronger balance between public and individual health goals, and collaborations between cost-efficient,streamlined medical care and innovative therapeutic research and technology –values that have been traditionally been considered in conflict. At the forefront of how we understand and approach health policy Explores policy innovations at all levels of governance INDICE: Policy Innovation for Health: Concept, Context and Challenge.- Innovation in the Monitoring of Health and Wellbeing: What Do We Need to Measure?- What Financing Models Accompany Innovative Health Policies?- How to Improve the Rationality of Health Policy? Health Policy Innovation Through More Evidence-Based Implementation.- Health in All Policies at the Local Level: Governance Through ‘Virtual Reorganization by Design’.- Innovation Through Citizens Centered Information: Citizen's Health Information as Health Systems Change Engines.- Innovation Through Trans-National Governance: 21st Century Network Governance.- Innovation Throught the Recognition of Health as a Macro Economic Driver.- Closing.
- ISBN: 978-0-387-79875-2
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 207
- Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés