McKinsey Quarterly – Q2 2009 - What to do about health care - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0982252412 ISBN 13: 9780982252413

Publisher: McKinsey & Company, 2009

Synopsis

McKinsey Quarterly is the business journal of McKinsey & Company. Our goal is to offer new ways of thinking about management in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. We aim to help business people run their organizations more productively, more competitively, and more creatively.

Quarterly articles, written by McKinsey consultants, offer practical ideas based on the firm's experience with the world's largest companies and on proprietary research and close ties to academic institutions.

What to do about health care

Health care reform is a priority throughout the world, notably in the United States: a combination of crippling medical-resource constraints, expensive new technologies, and unhealthy lifestyles is stressing out governments and health care institutions alike. This issue of McKinsey Quarterly focuses on the challenges facing the sector. Around the world, encouraging healthier lifestyles to stem the costs of chronic care issues is increasingly important. In the United States, reducing economic distortions that impede value-conscious decision making, as well as simplifying the system s unnecessary administrative complexity, are also high priorities. Governments will play a key role in financing and implementing change.

Also in this issue, we examine the prevalence of Web 2.0 tools and how companies can best use them; the role of market rebels in making or breaking new products; the irrational side of change management; and counterintuitive insights that can help companies run change programs successfully. And a look at the current economic crisis shows how companies that study past recessions, maintain R&D spending, and seek out opportunities can stay ahead of their competitors.

About this edition

• Publisher: McKinsey & Company
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0982252412
• ISBN 13: 9780982252413
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 140