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Marginal reallocation in pursuit of more efficient health care
Author(s) -
Leeder Stephen R,
Shiell Alan
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1994.tb138310.x
Subject(s) - health care , resource allocation , scarcity , power (physics) , healthcare system , economics , public economics , political science , law and economics , economic growth , microeconomics , management , physics , quantum mechanics
The clamorous call for us to do better with scarce health care resources may obscure the fact that we do well with what we have. And the realities of our complex health care system are that we have only a marginal power to effect change. So what can we do for a healthier health care system? In a paper based on his address to the recent symposium on resource allocation (see also page 468), Stephen Leeder presents ideas which he developed in cooperation with health economist Alan Shiell.