TY - JOUR PY - 2010 SN - 1972-4845 T1 - Health care outputs, outcomes and performance: a review of the debate JO - SALUTE E SOCIETÀ DA - 7/15/2010 12:00:00 AM DO - 10.3280/SES2010-SU1010 UR - http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/Scheda_rivista.aspx?idArticolo=39725 AU - Pavolini, Emmanuele SP - 145 EP - 166 IS - suppl. En. 2 VL - IX LA - EN AB - 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. PB - FrancoAngeli ER -