Health care evaluation / Sarah Smith ... [et al.].
Contributor(s): Smith, Sarah
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BookSeries: Understanding public health.Publisher: Maidenhead, Berkshire, England : Open University Press, 2005Description: viii, 208 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780335218493; 0335218490.Subject(s): Delivery of Health Care | Evaluation Studies as Topic | Social services & welfare, criminology | Health Policy | Public health & preventive medicine | Medical care -- Evaluation | Medical administration & management | Health and WellbeingDDC classification: 362.1068 HEA | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
No nation can afford to provide all the health care that its population wants. Countries can, however, ensure they obtain the greatest benefit from those resources available for health care. Evaluation of health care can help determine which services should be provided and how they should best be organized and delivered.
This book analyses health care interventions, from specific treatments to whole delivery systems, in terms of four key dimensions:
Effectiveness Efficiency Humanity EquitySeries Editors: Rosalind Plowman and Nicki Thorogood.
Formerly CIP. Uk
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Health care and evaluation -- Measuring disease, health status and health-related quality of life -- Evaluating effectiveness -- Measuring cost and evaluating cost-effectiveness -- Evaluating humanity -- Evaluating equity.
In this text the authors analyze health care interventions in terms of effectiveness, efficiency, humanity and equity, drawing on case-study examples from low-, middle- and high-income countries.