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How to make sense of health system efficiency comparisons?

1. The inexorable growth in health expenditure has led to a widespread demand for efficiency improvements. 2. There is no single metric or set of indicators that will give the complete picture of health system efficiency in a country. 3. The real causes of any identified inefficiencies need to be ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cylus, Jonathan, Papanicolas, Irene (Author), Smith, Peter (Author)
Corporate Authors: European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
Other Authors: Richardson, Erica (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Copenhagen, Denmark World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe 2017, [2017]
Series:Policy brief
Subjects:
Delivery Of Health Care / Organization & Administration
Health Services Research / Methods
Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms
Efficiency, Organizational
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Collection: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:1. The inexorable growth in health expenditure has led to a widespread demand for efficiency improvements. 2. There is no single metric or set of indicators that will give the complete picture of health system efficiency in a country. 3. The real causes of any identified inefficiencies need to be carefully identified and analysed to inform good policy-making. 4. More nuanced indicators require more standardized and detailed cost accounting data and linked datasets and registries. 5. This policy brief gives a useful framework for understanding and interpreting the healthcare efficiency metrics that are widely used
Item Description:At head of title: Health systems and policy analysis
Physical Description:1 PDF file (24 pages) illustrations

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