Measuring Up Improving Health System Performance in OECD Countries

How can we measure the performance of different health systems, and how can we use such information to support on-going health systems improvement? Those are the central questions addressed in this volume. Health policy makers have a growing interest in finding ways of encouraging health systems to...

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Autor principal: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Autores Corporativos: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Content Provider (content provider), Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development Content Provider, Canada Health Canada. Content Provider
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : OECD Publishing 2002.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Measuring Health System Performance
  • Performance Measurement and Improvement in OECD Health Systems
  • Improving Value for Money in the United Kingdom National Health Service
  • Improving Acountability in a Decentralised System
  • Providing Performance Information for Consumers
  • Can a Tulip become a Rose? The Dutch Route of Guided Self-regulation towards a Community-based Integrated Health Care System
  • Measuring up: Lessons and Potential
  • Towards Integrated and Coherent Health Information Systems for Performance Monitoring
  • Measuring Health System Performance and the Impact on Political Decision-making
  • Measuring and Improving Patients' Experiences
  • Equity in the Use of Physician Visits in OECD Countries
  • Measuring the Quality of Hospital Care
  • Measuring the Quality of Long-term Care in Institutional and Community Settings
  • Developing Composite Indicators for Assessing Health System Efficiency
  • Applying Performance Indicators to Health System Improvement
  • Opening the Black Box
  • The Evolution of WHO's Approach to Health System Performance Assessment
  • Editor's Preface.