Podcast #2
The Story Behind the Book Purchasing Population Health

Dave explores with Sanne the seminal, Canadian influence and how his sabbatical intellectual paralysis in York England almost resulted in no book. He reminds us of the only italicized sentence in the seminal Evans and Stoddart 1990 paper: “A society that spends so much on health care that it cannot or will not spend adequately on other health enhancing activities may actually be reducing the health of its population.”

Kindig DA. 1997. Purchasing Population Health: Paying for Results
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1. Purchasing Population Health: A Vision

Chapter 2. Taking Our Temperature:  How Healthy Are We?

Chapter 3. The High Cost of Health Care: Are We Getting the Most for Our Money?

Chapter 4. Measuring Health Outcomes

Chapter 5. The Multiple Determinants of Health

Chapter 6. Can Rationing Be Rational? Balancing the Determinants of Health

Chapter 7. Managing Boundaries

Chapter 8. Different Populations, Different Needs?

Chapter 9. Making It Happen

Chapter 10. The Case for Action, The Price of Inertia

References for the Podcast:

1. Evans RG, Stoddart GL. 1990. Producing Health, Consuming Health Care. Soc Sci Med 31(12):1347-1363.

2. Evans RG, Barer ML, Marmor TR, editors. 1994. Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? The Determinants of Health of Populations. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

3. Kindig DA. 1997. Purchasing Population Health: Paying for Results. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, MI.