عنوان

Health systems :

(Number (ISBN

924156198X

(Number (ISBN

9789241561983

Number

b760387

Title Proper

Health systems :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

improving performance.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Geneva :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

World Health Organization,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2000.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xix, 215 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, portrait ;

Dimensions

26 cm.

Series Title

World health report,

Volume Designation

2000

ISSN of Series

1022-3311 ;

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Overview -- How health systems have evolved -- Potential to improve -- Providing better services -- Finding a better balance -- Protecting the poor -- Why do health systems matter? -- Changing landscape -- What is a health system? -- What do health systems do? -- Why health systems matter? -- How modern health systems evolved -- Three generations of health system reform -- Focusing on performance -- How well do health systems perform? -- Attainment and performance -- Goals and functions -- Goodness and fairness: both level and distribution matter -- Measuring goal achievement -- Overall attainment: goodness and fairness combined -- Performance: getting results from resources -- Improving performance: four key functions -- Health services: well chosen, well organized? -- Organizational failings -- People at the centre of health services -- Choosing interventions: getting the most health from resources -- Choosing interventions: what else matters? -- Choosing interventions: what must be known? -- Enforcing priorities by rationing care -- After choosing priorities: service organization and provider incentives -- Organizational forms -- Service delivery configurations -- Aligning incentives -- Integration of provision -- What resources are needed? -- Balancing the mix of resources -- Human resources are vital -- Adjusting to advances in knowledge and technology -- Public and private production of resources -- Legacy of past investments -- Health care resource profiles -- Changing investment patterns -- Way forward -- Who pays for health systems? -- How financing works -- Prepayment and collection -- Spreading risk and subsidizing the poor: pooling of resources -- Strategic purchasing -- Organizational forms -- Incentives -- How financing affects equity and efficiency -- How is the public interest protected? -- Governments as stewards of health resources -- What is wrong with stewardship today? -- Health policy: vision for the future -- Setting the rules, ensuring compliance -- Exercising intelligence, sharing knowledge -- Strategies, roles and resources: who should do what? -- What are the challenges? -- How to improve performance.

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World Health Organization.

World Health Organization.

World Health Organization.

Delivery of Health Care.

Global Health.

Health Care Reform.

Health Status Indicators.

Health Status.

Public Health.

Santé, Services de-- Évaluation, Statistiques.

Santé, Services de-- Évaluation.

44.10 public health service: general.

Efficiëntie.

Gesundheitswesen

Gezondheidszorg.

Internationaler Vergleich

Kwaliteitszorg.

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System Code

World Health Organization.

Date of Transaction

20201204200806.0

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[Book]

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