Getting Health Reform Right, Anniversary Edition A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity

THE FOUNDATIONAL WORK IN HEALTH REFORM, CELEBRATING 15 YEARS OF INFLUENCE

Featuring a new introduction by the authors

Getting Health Reform Right is the world's leading text for understanding and managing health systems and their reform. Its simple, analytical model allows readers to design their own approach to improve health-system performance based on three outcomes of greatest importance (health status, citizen satisfaction, and financial risk protection), with step-by-step instructions for defining problems, diagnosing causes, devising solutions, and implementing changes.

"Rapidly assumed the status of a classic and proved an inspiration to a generation of students and policymakers. It is as relevant today as when it was first published." -Peter C. Smith, Emeritus Professor of Health Policy, Imperial College Business School, London

"Has become the mainstay of health-system reform conversations among policymakers in India. Its unique and accessible framing, which goes beyond abstract ideas, has resonated strongly in debates over how to improve health system performance." -Nachiket Mor, former Director, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, India

Marc J. Roberts (1943-2014) was Professor of Political Economy and Health Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

William C. Hsiao is K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Peter Berman is Professor and Director, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia.

Michael R. Reich is Taro Takemi Research Professor of International Health Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Introduction

Part I: Health System Analysis

1. Introduction
2. Health-Reform Cycle
3. Judging Health-Sector Performance: Ethical Theory
4. Political Analysis and Strategies
5. Goals for Evaluating Health Systems
6. Assessing Health-System Performance
7. From Diagnosis to Health-Sector Reform

Part II: The Control Knobs

8. Financing
9. Payment
10. Organization
11. Regulation
12. Behavior
13. Conclusions

Index