A Disease-based Comparison of Health Systems [electronic resource]: What is Best and at what Cost? /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2003.
What approach to treating certain ageing-related diseases works best and at what cost? That is, what combination of health care system characteristics, prevention, detection, technology and treatment, is the most cost-effective? The OECD Ageing-Related Diseases study investigated how health systems treat three diseases: ischemic heart disease, stroke and breast cancer. This book includes papers discussing the results of the OECD study with essays by leading experts, and uses a disease-based approach to comparing health-systems.
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Foreword; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction to the Ageing-Related Diseases Project; Chapter 2. The Heart of the Health Care System; Chapter 3. Stroke Treatment and Care; Chapter 4. Summary of Results from Breast Cancer Disease Study; Chapter 5. Comparing Health Care Systems from the Disease-specific Perspective; Chapter 6. Why do Different Countries Spend Different Amounts on Health Care?; Chapter 7. A Framework for Evaluating Medical Care Systems; Chapter 8. Integrating Cost-of-disease Studies into Purchasing Power Parities; Chapter 9. Projecting Future Needs
Chapter 10. Population Ageing, Health Expenditure and TreatmentChapter 11. Data Needed for Research and Policy in Ageing Societies; Chapter 12. The Technology-Health Expenditure Link; Chapter 13. The Relationship Between Health Policies, Medical Technology Trends and Outcomes; Chapter 14. How Health Technology Assessment, Regulation and Planning Affect the Diffusion of Technology in Health Care Systems; Chapter 15. Comparable Measures of Population Health with a Focus on OECD Countries; Chapter 16. Progressing the Collection of Information on Health Outcomes
Chapter 17. Understanding the Performance of Health SystemsChapter 18. Information Needs and the Implications for Monitoring Health Systems; Chapter 19. Ageing and Health Policy; Chapter 20. Summary of Roundtable Panel Discussion; Participating Countries and Organisations
Includes bibliographical references.
What approach to treating certain ageing-related diseases works best and at what cost? That is, what combination of health care system characteristics, prevention, detection, technology and treatment, is the most cost-effective? The OECD Ageing-Related Diseases study investigated how health systems treat three diseases: ischemic heart disease, stroke and breast cancer. This book includes papers discussing the results of the OECD study with essays by leading experts, and uses a disease-based approach to comparing health-systems.
Older people
Medical economics.
Medical care
Medical technology.
Medical policy.