International Comparison of Health Care Data

Methodology development and application

C.J.P.M. van Mosseveld, P. van Son (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

302 Seiten

2012
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-010-5969-5 (ISBN)

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International cooperation has developed rapidly on a wide range of policy areas in the last decades. National governments have learned to look across national borders in order to improve their policy systems, as in the case of health care, the subject of this book. There is a need to compare policy results, and therefore international comparison of statistical data is of great importance.
For decades, international organisations like OECD and WHO have collected and distributed statistical information of member states in order to describe developments within these countries. However, comparability across countries has always been problematic. The task of international comparison of statistical data has only reluctantly been adopted due to difficulties caused by differences in definition and methods of data collection.
In this book a method is presented for the advancement of international comparison of health care. Starting points are the determination of the boundaries of national health care systems and the activities that take place within these boundaries.
This book is meant for all those working in the international health care field or interested in international comparison, who want to be aware of the pitfalls of international comparison and who want to learn, from the described experiences, how to solve problems of comparability.

1. Introduction.- 2. Process.- 3. Country profile: The Netherlands.- 4. Country profile: Denmark.- 5. Country profile: Germany.- 6. Country profile: France.- 7. Country profile: Switzerland.- 8. Country profile: Belgium.- 9. Bilateral Comparisons: framework.- 10. Bilateral Comparable Package Block I: Intramural health care, update.- 11. The Bilateral Comparable Package Block II: Extramural health care.- 12. Bilateral Comparable Package Block III: Prevention.- 13. Bilateral Comparable Package Block IV: Medical goods.- 14. Attempted Bilateral Comparable Package Block V: Other services.- 15. Input and BCP compared.- 16. Common Comparable Packages: Introduction.- 17. Common Comparable Package Block I: Intramural health care: update.- 18. Common Comparable Package Block II: Extramural health care.- 19. Common Comparable Package Block III: Prevention.- 20. Common Comparable Package Block IV: Medical goods.- 21. Construction of the Common Comparable Package of health care.- 22. Evaluation.- Literature.

Zusatzinfo	302 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	195 x 260 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
ISBN-10	94-010-5969-1 / 9401059691
ISBN-13	978-94-010-5969-5 / 9789401059695
Zustand	Neuware