Towards high-performing health systems
Subtitle: policy studies
By: [Elizabeth Docteur, pricipal author].
Contributors: Docteur, Elizabeth.; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Publisher: OECD
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Medical policy -- OECD countries.; Public health -- OECD countries.
Other titles: OECD health project
Description: This series of seven policy studies were the source material for the synthesis report of The OECD Health Project, Towards High-Performing Health Systems.  They cover lessons from experience in health system reform, improving the technical quality of health care, income-related inequality in health care, matching supply with demand for physicians and nurses, excessive waiting times, costs and benefits of private health insurance, and ageing-related spending projections.
Notes: Also published in French: Vers des systèmes de santé plus performants.
Includes bibliographical references.
At head of title: The OECD health project.