Measuring Up [electronic resource]: Improving Health System Performance in OECD Countries /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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Paris : OECD Publishing,
2002.
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?
"... the OECD and Health Canada held a conference entitled "Measuring up: Improving health system performance in OECD countries" on 5-7 November 2001 in Ottawa."
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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?
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