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Health targets in Europe : learning from experience / edited by Matthias Wismar ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Observatory studies series ; 13.
- Observatory studies series ; 13
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--Europe--Case studies.
- Public health.
- Medical policy--Europe--Case studies.
- Medical policy.
- Medical care--Europe--Case studies.
- Medical care.
- Health status indicators--Europe.
- Health status indicators.
- Physical Description:
- x, 164 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : European Observatory on Health Systems and Poicies, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Health targets can help to improve the governance of health systems. They express a commitment to achieve specified outputs over a defined period, and allow progress towards broad goals and objectives to be monitored.They may be quantitative or qualitative, and based on outcomes or processes.This book draws on a series of case studies on the use of health targets, written by experts from Catalonia (Spain), England (United Kingdom), Flanders (Belgium), France, Germany, Hungary and the RussianFederation. It reviews the major technical, managerial and political challenges of defining and implementing health targets. While they help focus attention on agreed goals, to realize their potential they need to be based on evidence, accepted by those who work to achieve them, be embedded in frameworks of mutual accountability, linked to appropriate incentives and/or sanctions and supported by an adequate intelligence infrastructure.The experiences of these countries and regions can serve as examples to all those in government who strive to improve the performance of their health systems.
- Contents:
- COVER
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Part 1: Health Targets - Concepts and Principles
- Part 2: Country and Region Experiences.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-27397-3
- 9786612273971
- 92-890-4285-0
- OCLC:
- 781292815
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