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Sustainability: Business And Investment Implications

By: Diane-charlotte Simon,Alexander S Preker,Susan C Hulton

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Sustainability: Business And Investment Implications

By: Diane-charlotte Simon,Alexander S Preker,Susan C Hulton

This book explores the business and investment implications of sustainability, both opportunities and challenges. The volume lays the groundwork for understanding the growing areas of sustainable business and sustainable finance. Over the past few decades, the world has witnessed significant improvements in economic development that meet a wide range of human needs. Ensuring that such development takes place in a 'sustainable' way is the central focus of the book. The book provides insights for businesses, investors, and others on how to navigate this complex and evolving landscape.The United Nations and global leaders in business and investment have emphasized the important role that the private sector can play in protecting the environment and promoting a more sustainable use of resources.'What is needed now is a new era of economic growth — growth that is at the same time socially and environmentally sustainable. This call for action in the Forward to the 1987 Bruntland Report (Our Common Future), which emphasizes that economic growth is part of the solution not the problem, still rings true nearly 40 years later.Gro Harlem BrundtlandReport of the World Commission on Environment and Development, United Nations 1987'Private sector leadership is vital to advance sustainable development and fight the existential threats of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.'António GuterresUnited Nations Secretary-GeneralMessage to International Chamber of Commerce's 13th World Chambers CongressUnited Nations Press Release on the Environment, June 21, 2023 (SG/SM/21851)Like Henry Ford's strategy over 100 years ago at the time of the mass introduction of the Model T Ford, Elon Musk had a similar strategy for switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy powered cars. '[Initially enter] the high end of the market, where customers are prepared to pay a premium, and then drive down [the] market as fast as possible to higher unit volume and lower prices with each successive model.'Elon MuskCEO Tesla Inc, Interview with Solar Tribune, Feb 16, 2020'Investing for the long term requires taking a long-term view of what will impact returns, including demographics, government policy, technological advancements, and the transition to a low carbon economy.'Laurence D FinkBlackrock Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Larry Fink's Annual Chairman's Letter to Investors,Blackrock, 2023'Capital markets are an extraordinarily powerful tool in the fight against climate change. Government action is certainly critical. But ultimately, reducing emissions globally depends on the private sector recognizing the commercial opportunities that sustainability presents.'Michael R BloombergFounder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg PhilanthropiesDavid M SolomonCEO of Goldman SachsMobilize the Market to Fight Global WarmingBloomberg, Opinion Article, April 27, 2021

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Financing The Education Of Health Workers: Gaining A Competitive Edge

By: Alexander S Preker,Hortenzia Beciu,Eric L Keuffel

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Financing The Education Of Health Workers: Gaining A Competitive Edge

By: Alexander S Preker,Hortenzia Beciu,Eric L Keuffel

This volume reviews the economic underpinnings (investment and financing) and institutional reforms needed to successfully scale up the education of health workers. In this regard, the book examines five major economic and institutional challenges that policy makers face: (1) governance of health education organizations and systems; (2) approaches to financing the education of health workers; (3) the special nature of capital investment in expanding the capacity of health education institutions; (4) public-private partnerships in health education; and (5) equity in accessing health education, with a special focus on issues that arise from private approaches to the education of health workers.Much of the existing literature focuses on the quality and contents of training health workers, and very little has been written on the institutional dimension of financing their training and education. This book examines the complex institutional and financial models and approaches that can impact the demand and supply of health worker education programs around the world.Building on the findings of the Independent Commission on the Education of Health Professionals for the 21st Century, which published on the foundations and the issues of global postsecondary professional education, this volume brings in new and in-depth aspects such as governance, capital investments, and the role of the private sector in the production of health professionals; thus allowing the reader to understand how the health worker education field has moved from theory to practice.

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Financing Universal Access To Healthcare: A Comparative Review Of Landmark Legislative Health Reforms In The Oecd

By: Alexander S Preker

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Financing Universal Access To Healthcare: A Comparative Review Of Landmark Legislative Health Reforms In The Oecd

By: Alexander S Preker

The recent expansion of health insurance coverage in the USA under the Affordable Health Care Act, and current threats to reverse the benefits of this reform, have once again focused the world's attention on the difficult challenges faced by other countries trying to provide better access to healthcare to their population at an affordable cost. This textbook provides a comparative review of financing universal access to healthcare in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries.The first two chapters of the book provide a framework for financing universal access to healthcare. The remaining eight chapters present case studies of eight OECD countries that have successfully introduced reforms to finance universal access to healthcare for their population through landmark legislative reforms. A concluding chapter focuses on the lessons learned from the OECD and recommendations from policymakers and others who are planning similar reforms. The book is designed as a learning tool for students and as a user guide for policymakers.

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Market Mechanisms and the Health Sector in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Alexander S. Preker,Richard G. Feachem

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Market Mechanisms and the Health Sector in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Alexander S. Preker,Richard G. Feachem

Annotation World Bank Technical Paper No. 293.Presents a conceptual framework for understanding the impact of health sector reforms in Central and Eastern Europe. The book analyzes the various factors involved in the reforms and presents strategies adopted by many countries of the region during the early phases of the transition era.

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Private Participation in Health Services

By: April Harding,Alexander S. Preker

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Private Participation in Health Services

By: April Harding,Alexander S. Preker

Although many countries already make use of private sector services to achieve policy objectives in public health care provision, it remains a controversial topic. Drawing on a wide range of country experiences, this book considers the use of the private sector in the provision of public health services in developing countries, in terms of: assessing the potential for private sector involvement, contracting with the private sector for health services, regulating the sector, and what to do when key information is not available.

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Financing The Education Of Health Workers: Gaining A Competitive Edge

By: Alexander S Preker,Hortenzia Beciu,Eric L Keuffel

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By: Alexander S Preker,Hortenzia Beciu,Eric L Keuffel

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Financing Universal Access To Healthcare: A Comparative Review Of Landmark Legislative Health Reforms In The Oecd

By: Alexander S Preker

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Public Ends, Private Means

Strategic Purchasing of Health Services

By: Alexander S. Preker

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Public Ends, Private Means

Strategic Purchasing of Health Services

By: Alexander S. Preker

Great progress has been made in recent years in securing better access and financial protection against the cost of illness through collective financing of health care. Managing scarce resources effectively and efficiently is an important part of this story. Experience has shown that, without strategic policies and focused spending, the poor are likely to get left out. The use of purchasing to enhance public sector performance is well-documented in other sectors. Extension to the health sector of lessons from this experience is now successfully implemented in many developing countries. Public.

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Market Mechanisms and the Health Sector in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Alexander S. Preker,Richard G. Feachem

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Private Sector Role in Scaling Up Education of Health Workers

Gaining the Competitive Edge

By: Alexander S. Preker,Hortenzia Beciu,Howard Tuckman

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Private Sector Role in Scaling Up Education of Health Workers

Gaining the Competitive Edge

By: Alexander S. Preker,Hortenzia Beciu,Howard Tuckman

The higher education policies across the globe emphasized the need for strong leadership and good governance, significant investments, public-private partnerships, and industry cooperation to achieve economic growth and a competitive edge. The book brings together overviews and country-level work on six major economic and institutional challenges to policy makers: (1) governance of health education organizations and systems, (2) approaches to financing the education of health workers, (3) the special nature of capital investment in expanding the capacity of health education institutions; (4) equity in accessing health education, with a special focus on issues arising fin private approaches to health worker education; (5) public-private partnerships, and (6) the role of technology as a game changer in health worker education and possibilities for leapfrogging.Based on World Bank research, the book provides an assessment of the resource envelope likely to be available to the health and education sectors by 2015 in Sub-Saharan Africa. Also discussed are some of the international regional efforts to align, transregional standards and to raise the quality of higher education to fill contemporary needs. The authors discuss new or overlooked issues related to scaling up health education such as capital investment, health education financing, and the role of the private sector. In many countries, the binding constraint to scaling up health education is not only the sector’s limited absorptive capacity to hire the trained personnel but also its limited resources to devote to training and needed capital investments to expand of institutional capacity to train more graduates. In a number of countries, the cost of educating the additional health workforce would outstrip the annual higher education budgets of the Ministries of Education. Furthermore, many countries trying to scale up health education also need to consider parallel measures to ensure that the secondary education system produces enough graduates to feed a scaling up of health education.The authors present in-depth case studies of five Sub-Saharan countries’ health human resources strategies with a focus on education.

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Innovations in Health Service Delivery

The Corporatization of Public Hospitals

By: Alexander S. Preker,April Harding

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Innovations in Health Service Delivery

The Corporatization of Public Hospitals

By: Alexander S. Preker,April Harding

As the largest expenditure category of the health systems in both industrialised and developing countries, hospital care provision has been the focus of reforms over recent decades. This publication reviews recent trends in hospital policy reforms and options around the world; and includes case studies which offer insights into lessons learned. Issues considered include: differences in income levels, cultural settings and market environments; organisational changes such as increased management autonomy and privatisation; the need for parallel reforms and effective evaluation mechanisms.

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Sustainability: Business And Investment Implications

Sustainability: Business And Investment Implications

Financing The Education Of Health Workers: Gaining A Competitive Edge

Financing The Education Of Health Workers: Gaining A Competitive Edge

Financing Universal Access To Healthcare: A Comparative Review Of Landmark Legislative Health Reforms In The Oecd

Financing Universal Access To Healthcare: A Comparative Review Of Landmark Legislative Health Reforms In The Oecd

Market Mechanisms and the Health Sector in Central and Eastern Europe

Market Mechanisms and the Health Sector in Central and Eastern Europe

Private Participation in Health Services

Private Participation in Health Services

Financing The Education Of Health Workers: Gaining A Competitive Edge

Financing The Education Of Health Workers: Gaining A Competitive Edge

Financing Universal Access To Healthcare: A Comparative Review Of Landmark Legislative Health Reforms In The Oecd

Financing Universal Access To Healthcare: A Comparative Review Of Landmark Legislative Health Reforms In The Oecd

Public Ends, Private Means

Public Ends, Private Means

Market Mechanisms and the Health Sector in Central and Eastern Europe

Market Mechanisms and the Health Sector in Central and Eastern Europe

Private Sector Role in Scaling Up Education of Health Workers

Private Sector Role in Scaling Up Education of Health Workers

Innovations in Health Service Delivery

Innovations in Health Service Delivery

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