A Call to Action

Taking Back Healthcare for Future Generations

Hank A. McKinnell

220 pages, parution le 13/06/2005

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Résumé

Healthcare systems around the world, McKinnell argues, are focused on sickness and its management rather than health. As a result, dialogue about how to sustain health now takes a back seat to arguments about cost'containing it, avoiding it, or shifting it to someone else. The result? A near-universal belief that healthcare is becoming unaffordable, fragmented, and impersonal. 'Focusing only on the cost of care is looking at the healthcare problem though the worong end of the telescope,' says McKinnell, the chairman and CEO of Pfizer. 'The real focus should be on the horrific cost of disease.' In America, the 'sick-care' system delivers the world's most sophisticated procedures, while skimping on vaccines, hampering the fight against AIDS, and intruding into one of life's most personal relationships ' doctor and patient.

Groundbreaking and provocative, A Call to Action, reframes the dialogue on healthcare and offers people a way out of the zero-sum, win-or-lose game they now encounter. Distilling more than 30 years of experience in global healthcare, McKinnell provides concrete action steps to build cost-effective, inclusive healthcare that he believes can extend millions of lives and save billions of dollars over the next generation. He addresses:

A new, prevention-based approach to employee healthcare
Why pharmaceutical companies have lost trust, and what they must do to regain it
Why Americans pay more for prescription drugs than people in Canada and Europe
How competition can spur the healthcare industry to improve services and contain prices
How new technologies can reduce medical errors and improve the dialogues between patient and doctor
How we might lose the race between the world's most insidious virus and the world's best researchers
How we can take more responsibility for our health

McKinnell also assesses the global challenge of infectious disease, particularly the pandemic of HIV. He demonstrates why this pandemic 'the worst in human history 'is beyond the scope of governments acting alone 'and how, even in the face of devastating global catastrophes, public-private partnerships can deliver real hope.

The healthcare crisis can be brought under control. Sick-care systems can be changed to put patiens over payers. In this book, McKinnell offers a compelling case for change, and a plan of action to make healthcare systems work for us and our children.

L'auteur - Hank A. McKinnell

Hank A. McKinnell joined PfizerJapan in 1971 and, in 2001, was named as the twelfth chairman in Pfizer's 156-year history. McKinnell's illustrious career at Pfizer spans four decades and has brought him from a country manager position in pre-revolutionary Iran to leadership of the world's largest pharmaceutical company. Along the way, he received accolades for both his leadership ability and business acumen. In 2003, McKinnell was honored with the United Nations Association of America's Global Leadership Award and, in 2004 he was counted among America's most powerful business leaders by Fortune magazine.

Sommaire

A personal take, a personal stake
What is health?
Reluctant healthcare providers
Why are prescription medicines so expensive?
Why does the industry do so much marketing?
why do americans pay more than canadians for drugs?
Welcome competition in healthcare
I health creates wealth: no one left behind
Consumer-driven healthcare:balancing choice, responsibility, and accountability
The research imperative: the search for cures
Information intensive: reaping the benefits of technology
Change is possible: infectious disease and the struggle for hope
Next steps: a call to action starts here
The deadline for complaints was yesterday

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	Hank A. McKinnell
Parution	13/06/2005
Nb. de pages	220
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	490g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780071448086
ISBN13	978-0-07-144808-6