Health System Performance Comparison
An Agenda For Policy, Information And Research
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2013
418 pages
978-0-335-24727-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book seeks to identify the current 'state of the art' of health system comparison, identifying data and methodological issues and exploring the current interface between evidence and practice.
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Irene Papanicolas | Peter Smith
Health System Performance Comparison: An Agenda for Policy, Information and Research
An agenda for policy, information and research
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05/2013
Open University Press
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Content
- Front cover
- Half title
- The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
- Title
- Copyright
- European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies Series
- Contents
- Foreword from WHO
- Foreword from the European Commission
- Foreword from the OECD
- List of contributors
- List of tables, figures and boxes
- Abbreviations
- Chapter One - Introduction
- Chapter Two - International Frameworks for Health System Comparison
- Chapter Three - International Comparisons of Health Systems
- Chapter Four - Benchmarking: Lessons and Implications for Health Systems
- Chapter Five - Comparing Population Health
- Chapter Six - Comparing Health Services Outcomes
- Chapter Seven - Conceptualizing and Comparing Equity Across Nations
- Chapter Eight - Measuring and Comparing Financial Protection
- Chapter Nine - Understanding Satisfaction, Responsiveness and Experience with the Health System
- Chapter Ten - Comparative Measures of Health System Efficiency
- Chapter Eleven - Commentary on International Health System Performance Information
- Chapter Twelve - Conclusions
- Index
- Back cover
