Measuring the Effectiveness of Health Care Systems

Alan Williams
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Alan Williams: University of York

Chapter 18 in The Economics of Health and Medical Care, 1974, pp 361-376 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Much economic analysis of health care systems employs measures of effectiveness which relate to workload or provision rather than to the health status of the individual. A conceptually correct measure is sketched out, and it is argued that such a measure is operationally feasible, though it requires careful analytical treatment, and a clearly specified division of responsibility between various research disciplines, administrators and policy-makers, all of whom would be involved in generating and processing the relevant information. It is also argued that some effort should be devoted to wide-ranging, routine, longitudinal monitoring of individual health states as a source of such information, and a brief account is given of a proposed field trial, relating to the care of the elderly in Britain, designed to demonstrate the possibility and usefulness of this approach.

Keywords: Health Care System; Resource Allocation Decision; Client State; Social Science Research Council; Individual Health State (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1974
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-63660-0_18

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