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Measuring the Effectiveness of Health Care Systems

In: The Economics of Health and Medical Care

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  • Alan Williams

    (University of York)

Abstract

Much economic analysis of health care systems employs measures of effectiveness which relate to workload or provision rather than to the health status of the individual. A conceptually correct measure is sketched out, and it is argued that such a measure is operationally feasible, though it requires careful analytical treatment, and a clearly specified division of responsibility between various research disciplines, administrators and policy-makers, all of whom would be involved in generating and processing the relevant information. It is also argued that some effort should be devoted to wide-ranging, routine, longitudinal monitoring of individual health states as a source of such information, and a brief account is given of a proposed field trial, relating to the care of the elderly in Britain, designed to demonstrate the possibility and usefulness of this approach.

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  • Alan Williams, 1974. "Measuring the Effectiveness of Health Care Systems," International Economic Association Series, in: Mark Perlman (ed.), The Economics of Health and Medical Care, chapter 18, pages 361-376, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-63660-0_18
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-63660-0_18
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    1. José Ferraz-Nunes, 2005. "Cost-Effective Prevention of Hip Fractures," International Advances in Economic Research, Springer;International Atlantic Economic Society, vol. 11(1), pages 49-67, February.
    2. Antonio Clavero Barranquero & Mª. Luz González Alvarez, 2005. "A survey of econometric models to analyze the demand and utilisation of health care," Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, IEF, vol. 173(2), pages 129-162, June.
    3. Alan Williams, 1998. "Primeval health economics in Britain: A personal retrospect of the pre‐HESG period," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 7(S1), pages 3-8, August.
    4. Alain Letourmy, 1976. "Santé, environnement et consommations médicales. Discussion autour d'un modèle," Revue Économique, Programme National Persée, vol. 27(3), pages 402-432.
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