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Health status and health policy : quality of life in health care evaluation and resource allocation / Donald L. Patrick, Pennifer Erickson.
LIBRA RA395.A3 P298 1993
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Patrick, Donald L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical policy--United States.
- Medical policy.
- United States.
- Medical care--United States--Evaluation.
- Medical care.
- Evaluation.
- Quality of life.
- Medical care, Cost of--United States.
- Medical care, Cost of.
- Cost-Benefit Analysis--methods.
- Health Expenditures.
- Health Policy--economics.
- Health Resources--economics.
- Health Status.
- Quality of Life.
- Medical Subjects:
- Cost-Benefit Analysis--methods.
- Health Expenditures.
- United States.
- Health Policy--economics.
- Health Resources--economics.
- Health Status.
- Quality of Life.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 478 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
- Summary:
- This practical work provides a systematic guide to state-of-the-art development and application of health status and quality-of-life measures for health care policy and research. It explains how to allocate health resources by comparing costs and outcomes of alternative health policies to identify those with greatest benefit in relation to cost. The book outlines how to collect and organize data to calculate the cost per year of healthy life gained for competing interventions. The use of these data in a social and political decision-making process based on community values and objectives is then discussed. Valuable guidelines are presented for assessing health and quality of life in program evaluation, monitoring of health policy, clinical trials, and health services research. Each chapter contributes to the development and application of health and quality of life outcomes to the major health decisions in the 1990s, including preventing disease and promoting health, assessing the costs and benefits of technology, and improving health care access.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0195050274
- OCLC:
- 25372498
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