Measuring Up : Improving Health System Performance in OECD Countries / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Contributor:

SourceOECD (Online service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social issues, migration, health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 pages)

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2002.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 accountability among funders and providers of health services. This book highlights the core elements of a possible performance measurement framework to assess health systems at the international and national levels. It also addresses further challenges which remain: how do we overcome the lack of health outcome measures? How do we better align performance information and incentives with policy objectives? And how do we reconcile the traditional professional self-regulation approach with greater public accountability for health care quality?

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed May 1, 2017).

ISBN:

9789264195950

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.