Table of contents - Special Issue: Worrying about accounting in health care
Worrying about Accounting in Health Care
Wai Fong Chua, Alistair PrestonAims to promote concern and debate about the penetration of accountingand financial management in the health care sectors of severalAnglo‐Saxon countries – the United States…
Counting Health Care Costs in the United States: A Hermeneutical Study of Cost Benefit Research
Leslie S. Oakes, Judith Considine, Steven GouldSince the mid‐1980s the major players in US health care have argued thatcosts and benefits should underlie the allocation of health careresources. Looks at 30 cost benefit studies…
The Contemporary Discourse on Health Care Cost: Conflicting Meanings and Meaningful Conflicts
Patricia J. Arnold, Theresa Davis Hammond, Leslie S. OakesDiscussion of health care costs has expanded beyond the technicaldomains of accountancy and entered the realms of public discourse.Analyses this discourse through an examination…
The Great Experiment: Financial Management Reform in the NZ Health Sector
Stewart Lawrence, Manzurul Alam, Tony LoweExamines the move towards a commercialized, economically driven, healthsector in New Zealand. Reforms involve extensive organizationalrearrangements and the creation of…
Recent Financial and Administrative Changes in GP Practices in the UK: Initial Experiences and Effects
Richard Laughlin, Jane Broadbent, Heidrun Willig‐AthertonGeneral Medical Practitioners (GPs) and their practices have beensubject to a wide range of mandatory financial and administrativechanges in the last few years. Explores the…
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0951-3574Online date, start – end:
1988Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Prof James Guthrie
- Prof Lee Parker