ISBN:
9789264196766
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (347 p.)
Paralleltitel:
Print version Measuring Up : Improving Health System Performance in OECD Countries
DDC:
362.1/094
Schlagwort(e):
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Internationaler Vergleich
Kurzfassung:
Proceedings of the Ottawa Conference, November 2001. 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 improve their performance, where performance is measured against quality, efficiency or equity goals. Improving performance has the potential to reduce the tensions between rising demands and limited resources. There is also a growing demand for a
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Foreword; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Editor's Preface; References; Part I. Overview of Issues and Challenges; Chapter 1. Measuring Health System Performance: Problems and Opportunities in the Era of Assessment...; Chapter 2. Performance Measurement and Improvement in OECD Health Systems: Overview of Issues and Challenges; Part II. Performance Measurement and Performance Management from the Perspective of Various Actors...; Chapter 3. Improving Value for Money in the United Kingdom National Health Service: Performance Measurement...
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Chapter 4. Improving Accountability in a Decentralised System: A Swedish PerspectiveChapter 5. Providing Performance Information for Consumers: Experience from the United States; Chapter 6. Can a Tulip Become a Rose? The Dutch Route of Guided Self-Regulation Towards a Community-Based...; Chapter 7. Towards Integrated and Coherent Health Information Systems for Performance Monitoring: the Canadian...; Part III. Performance Measurement Activities at the International Level: How Can International Comparison...; Chapter 8. Opening the black box: whaT Can Be Learned from a Disease-Based Approach?
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Chapter 9. The Evolution of WHO's Approach to Health System Performance AssessmentChapter 10. Measuring and Improving Patients' Experiences: How Can we Make Health Care Systems Work...; Chapter 11. Equity in the Use of Physician Visits in OECD Countries: Has Equal Treatment for Equal Need Been...; Part IV. Best Practices in Measuring Different Dimensions of Health System Performance; Chapter 12. Measuring the Quality of Hospital Care: The State of the Art; Chapter 13. Measuring the Quality of Long-term Care in Institutional and Community Settings
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Chapter 14. Developing Composite Indicators for Assessing Health System EfficiencyPart IV. Applying Performance Indicators to Health System Improvement; Chapter 15. Applying Performance Indicators to Health System Improvement; Part VI. Summary and Conclusions; Chapter 16. Measuring Up: Lessons and Potential; Part VII. Ministerial Roundtable: Leadership, Successes and Challenges; Chapter 17. Measuring Health System Performance and the Impact on Political Decision-making: the Views...;
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1787/9789264195950-en
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