Health care outputs, outcomes and performance: a review of the debate
Journal title SALUTE E SOCIETÀ
Author/s Emmanuele Pavolini
Publishing Year 2010 Issue 2010/suppl. En. 2 Language English
Pages 22 P. 145-166 File size 412 KB
DOI 10.3280/SES2010-SU1010
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The essay offers an overview of the international and Italian literature that, in recent years, has studied how to measure and to evaluate the results and the performance achieved by health care systems. The analysis shows which are the principal theoretical and methodological issues in the comparative studies, as well as the difficulties that still nowadays are inherent these measurement attempts.
Keywords: Performance, health care systems, health inequalities, outputs, outcomes, health expenditure financing.
Emmanuele Pavolini, Health care outputs, outcomes and performance: a review of the debate in "SALUTE E SOCIETÀ" suppl. En. 2/2010, pp 145-166, DOI: 10.3280/SES2010-SU1010