Policy Innovation for Health

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kickbusch, Ilona (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health promotion.; Health administration.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Health Administration.

Policy Innovation for Health Policy Innovation for Health Edited by Ilona Kickbusch, Graduate Institute of International and Developmental Studies, Geneva The facts are hard to ignore: rising rates of chronic disease, epidemic obesity and diabetes, a widening longevity gap between rich and poor, hea...

Table of Contents:

• Policy Innovations for Health
• Intelligence for Health Governance: Innovation in the Monitoring of Health and Well-Being
• Financing for Health in All Policies
• Health as a Driving Economic Force
• Integrating Health in All Policies at the Local Level: Using Network Governance to Create ‘Virtual Reorganization by Design’
• Knowledge-Centered Health Innovation: The Case for Citizen Health Information Systems.