Deaths amenable to health care: Converging trends in the EU?

Anke Weber and Marie Clerc

Health Policy, 2017, vol. 121, issue 6, 644-652

Abstract: Amenable mortality has been recently included in the joint monitoring tool by the European Commission and Member States to assess a country's health system performance. Amenable deaths are premature deaths, which should not have occurred at this stage in the light of timely and effective health care.

Keywords: Public health; Cause of death; Premature mortality; Healthcare disparities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2017.03.017

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