Manage or Perish?

The Challenges of Managed Mental Health Care in Europe

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Reference, Public Health, Specialties, Psychiatry
Cover of the book Manage or Perish? by , Springer US
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: ISBN: 9781461541479
Publisher: Springer US Publication: December 6, 2012
Imprint: Springer Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9781461541479
Publisher: Springer US
Publication: December 6, 2012
Imprint: Springer
Language: English

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative. " -H. G. Wells, Mind at the End of Its Tether (1946) Doctors are trained to treat people suffering from various diseases. This is the main form of their activity and usually the reason for which they selected medicine as their profession. The notion that they should become managers and engage in activi­ ties such as programming, calculating cost, assessing cost-benefit ratios, and thinking about pricing in accordance with the social utility of their intervention, is both foreign and abhorrent to them. They are sometimes willing to say how much they need in order to have a well-functioning service: usually they prefer to state what specific apparatus and other things they require without specifying the price of their demand. They can be persuaded to add a price tag to what they think is necessary for their work: but that was about as far as they would go, until recently. The growing emphasis on human rights over the past few decades, the greater emphasis on quality of life and the public's heightened expectations about their health led, in many industrialized countries, to a greater demand for health services. This, com­ bined with improved possibilities of diagnosis and treatment (at higher cost!), led to a significant increase in financial demands which made governments and health-care systems uneasy and ready to accept any solution that would stop the spiral of seem­ ingly endless cost augmentation.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative. " -H. G. Wells, Mind at the End of Its Tether (1946) Doctors are trained to treat people suffering from various diseases. This is the main form of their activity and usually the reason for which they selected medicine as their profession. The notion that they should become managers and engage in activi­ ties such as programming, calculating cost, assessing cost-benefit ratios, and thinking about pricing in accordance with the social utility of their intervention, is both foreign and abhorrent to them. They are sometimes willing to say how much they need in order to have a well-functioning service: usually they prefer to state what specific apparatus and other things they require without specifying the price of their demand. They can be persuaded to add a price tag to what they think is necessary for their work: but that was about as far as they would go, until recently. The growing emphasis on human rights over the past few decades, the greater emphasis on quality of life and the public's heightened expectations about their health led, in many industrialized countries, to a greater demand for health services. This, com­ bined with improved possibilities of diagnosis and treatment (at higher cost!), led to a significant increase in financial demands which made governments and health-care systems uneasy and ready to accept any solution that would stop the spiral of seem­ ingly endless cost augmentation.

More books from Springer US

Cover of the book Systems Science by
Cover of the book International Public Goods by
Cover of the book Cellular Nanoscale Sensory Wave Computing by
Cover of the book Bacterial Diversity and Systematics by
Cover of the book The Collector’s Book of Fluorescent Minerals by
Cover of the book Low-Energy FPGAs — Architecture and Design by
Cover of the book Breast Cancer: Origins, Detection, and Treatment by
Cover of the book Models, Methods, Concepts & Applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process by
Cover of the book Theoretical Psychology by
Cover of the book Environmental Software Systems by
Cover of the book Magnetite Biomineralization and Magnetoreception in Organisms by
Cover of the book Handbook of Cloud Computing by
Cover of the book The Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia by
Cover of the book Comparative, Maternal, and Epidemiologic Aspects by
Cover of the book Extremity Replantation by
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy