Health System Performance Comparison: An agenda for policy, information and research / Edition 1

by Irene Papanicolas, Peter Smith

Overview

This book seeks to identify the current 'state of the art' of health system comparison, identifying data and methodological issues and exploring the current interface between evidence and practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335247264
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date:	04/01/2013
Series:	European Observatory on Health Care Systems
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

Irene Papanicolas is Lecturer in Health Economics, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Peter C. Smith is Professor of Health Policy, Imperial College Centre for Health Policy, UK

Table of Contents

Foreword by Zsuzanna Jakab
Foreword by Paola Testori Coggi
Foreword by Mark Pearson

1: Introduction
Irene Papanicolas and Peter C. Smith

2: International frameworks for health system comparison
Irene Papanicolas

3: International comparisons of health systems
Irene Papanicolas and Peter C. Smith

4: Benchmarking: lessons and implications for health systems
Andy Neely

5: Comparing population health
Marina Karanikolos, Bernadette Khoshaba, Ellen Nolte and Martin McKee

6: Comparing health services outcomes
Niek Klazinga and Lilian Li

7: Conceptualizing and comparing equity across nations
Cristina Hernández-Quevedo and Irene Papanicolas

8: Measuring and comparing financial protection
Rodrigo Moreno-Serra, Sarah Thomson and Ke Xu

9: Understanding satisfaction, responsiveness and experience with the health system
Reinhard Busse

10: Comparative measures of health system efficiency
Jonathan Cylus and Peter C. Smith

11: Commentary on international health system performance information
Nick Fahy

12: Conclusions
Irene Papanicolas and Peter C. Smith