Health Systems Performance Assessment: Debates, Methods and Empiricism - Hardcover

World Health Organization

 
9789241562454: Health Systems Performance Assessment: Debates, Methods and Empiricism
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9241562455 ISBN 13: 9789241562454
Publisher: World Health Organization, 2003

Synopsis

This volume reports on a large body of work led by the World Health Organization that is intended to strengthen the foundations for evidence-based policies aimed at health systems development. This has included work to develop a common conceptual framework for health systems performance assessment, to encourage the development of tools to measure its components, and to collaborate with countries in applying these tools to measure and then to improve health systems performance. It began with the enunciation of a framework that specified a parsimonious set of key goals to which health systems contribute, and the first set of figures on goal attainment and health system efficiency in countries that were Members of the Organization was published inThe World Health Report 2000.

This book provides a uniquely comprehensive exploration of many different facets of health systems performance assessment. It will be relevant for researchers, students and decision-makers seeking a more detailed understanding of concepts, methods and the latest empirical findings. While most authors in this volume take a global perspective, the findings have important implications for the development of national performance frameworks and the creation of a culture of accountability.

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Synopsis

Murray and Evans (both World Health Organization) assemble in one volume the substance of many of the key debates and reports, methodological advances, and new empiricism reflecting the evolution of the WHO approach to health systems performance assessment since the year 2000. Sixty-one chapters, written by WHO-affiliated and other international sp

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Publisher
World Health Organization
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9241562455
ISBN 13 
9789241562454
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
953