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| Health Targets in Europe |
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| Learning from Experience. |
| Observatory Studies Series, No. 13 |
| Wismar, M., McKee, M., Ernst, K., Srivastava, D., Busse, R |
| WHO Regional Office for Europe |
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ISBN-13
9789289042840
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ISBN-10
9289042842
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Order Number
13400080
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Format
Paper Back
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Price
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40.00
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US$
48.00
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Developing countries:
CHF
28.00
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English
2008
174
pages
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| Summary |
Health targets can help to improve the
governance of health systems. They express a
commitment to achieve specified outputs over a
defined period, and allow progress towards
broad goals and objectives to be monitored.
They may be quantitative or qualitative, and
based on outcomes or processes.
This book draws on a series of case studies on
the use of health targets, written by experts
from Catalonia (Spain), England (United
Kingdom), Flanders (Belgium), France,
Germany, Hungary and the Russian
Federation. It reviews the major technical,
managerial and political challenges of defining
and implementing health targets. While they
help focus attention on agreed goals, to realize
their potential they need to be based on
evidence, accepted by those who work to
achieve them, be embedded in frameworks of
mutual accountability, linked to appropriate
incentives and/or sanctions and supported by
an adequate intelligence infrastructure.
The experiences of these countries and regions
can serve as examples to all those in
government who strive to improve the
performance of their health systems.
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