The Economics of Public Health and Medical Care

The economics of public health and medical care. 1932.

I t is eminently fitting that a meeting devoted to the economics of public health and medical care should be held under the auspices of the Milbank Memorial Fund. Many of America’s great foundations have demonstrated a keen and unwavering interest in medical problems of one sort or another. But few of them, I believe, have been any more interested in the health of the people and particularly in...

The economics of health care quality and medical errors.

Hospitals have been looking for ways to improve quality and operational efficiency and cut costs for nearly three decades, using a variety of quality improvement strategies. However, based on recent reports, approximately 200,000 Americans die from preventable medical errors including facility-acquired conditions and millions may experience errors. In 2008, medical errors cost the United States...

Topics in medical economics: health care rationing.

Ethics, economics, and public financing of health care.

There is a wide variety of ethical arguments for public financing of health care that share a common structure built on a series of four logically related propositions regarding: (1) the ultimate purpose of a human life or human society; (2) the role of health and its distribution in society in advancing this ultimate purpose; (3) the role of access to or utilisation of health care in maintaini...

Public Health and Medical Care Implications

INTERSALT study findings. Public health and medical care implications. Print ISSN: 0194-911X. Online ISSN: 1524-4563 Copyright © 1989 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Hypertension doi: 10.1161/01.HYP.14.5.57