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¶ … spending in healthcare on the side of the health care providers as well as on the side of the health care recipients. The authors' intended audience is definitely for professionals in the health care industry. The authors' intended audience may additionally include educated or well-informed health care recipients (patients). The name of the article that is the subject of this review is Health care systems: Getting More Value for Money. This article was written less than two years ago, therefore the perspective and the information are quite recent.
In summary, the article contends that there is a need to contain spending with respect to health care. The authors advocate that there is no one size fits all solution to spending in health care. The authors advocate for structured decision making processes that on the hand, should properly allot for health care expenses and treatments and on the other hand, should be restricted from excessive and needless reasons...
The authors' purpose was to write a piece that articulates the need for a balance between what health care providers need to spend in order to provide adequate to exceptional care, and the rising costs of quality health care around the world, especially in highly developed, industrial societies, such as those found in North American, Europe and parts of Asia. One of the primary solutions that the authors suggest is increased efficiency with respect to health care spending on both ends of the health care experience. The authors' tone is compelling as there is genuine concern for health care providers and health care recipients, almost equally concerned for both parties.
The topic of my choice regards health care, value, money, and economics. This article relates to and connects each aspect of my choice of topic. The article overall is about health care. The secondary topics of the article are other aspects such as value and economics. The…
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2010). Health care systems: Getting More Value for Money. OECD Economics Department Policy Notes, 2, 1 -- 12.
Severens, J. (2003). Value for money of changing healthcare services? Economic evaluation of quality improvement. Quality Safe Health Care, 12(5), 366 -- 371.
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