A Disease-based Comparison of Health Systems What is Best and at what Cost?
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...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Paris
OECD Publishing
2003
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Collection: | OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | 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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Physical Description: | 347 p. 20 x 27cm |
ISBN: | 9789264100053 |