A disease-based comparison of health systems : what is best and at what cost?
What approach to treating certain age-related diseases works best and at what cost? That is, what combination of health care system characteristics, prevention, detection, technology and treatment, is the most cost-effective? These are the central questions addressed in this volume. The OECD Ageing-...
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| Summary: | What approach to treating certain age-related diseases works best and at what cost? That is, what combination of health care system characteristics, prevention, detection, technology and treatment, is the most cost-effective? These are the central questions addressed in this volume. The OECD Ageing-Related Diseases study investigated how health systems treat three diseases: ischaemic heart disease, stroke and breast cancer. This was accomplished by examining how these approaches differ between countries and over time within them. To explain why these differences persist in the face of growing medical understanding of best practice, this book reviews the roles of incentives, institutional factors and policies. This book combines a collection of essays by leading experts from several OECD countries with papers discussing the results of the OECD Ageing-Related Diseases study. By employing a bottom-up rather than a more conventional top-down approach, the Ageing-Related Diseases study used a disease-based approach to comparing health systems. The book is structured along the main issues addressed in the study: expenditures, ageing, technology and outcomes, with additional chapters on its policy implications. |
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| Item Description: | Based on presentations from a workshop held on June 20-21, 2002. |
| Physical Description: | 363 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9264099816 |