Download or read book Health Policy and the Public Interest written by Lok-sang Ho and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers both a theoretical treatment of health policy as well as practical assessment of various healthcare reform proposals and healthcare systems in different countries. It begins with a distinction between functional health and the stock of health and their determinants, and offers an intuitively appealing framework to understand their determinants under conditions of uncertainty.