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Towards an analytical approach to health sector reform
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The paper concludes that there now has a systematic analytical approach to reform, in which tools and methods for addressing information gaps are well developed and need to be more widely applied, while those addressing institutional failures still need further development and application.About:
This article is published in Health Policy.The article was published on 1995-04-01. It has received 26 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Market failure & Allocative efficiency.read more
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The evidence-based approach in health policy and health care delivery.
TL;DR: Developments in the way in which health policy is informed by the results from health research are sketched, which summarises evidence-based approaches in health at three impact levels: intersectoral assessment, national health care policy, and evidence- based medicine in everyday practice.
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Justice between Age Groups and Generations Peter Laslett and James S. Fishkin, eds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992, pp. viii, 243
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Creating spatially defined databases for equitable health service planning in low-income countries: the example of Kenya
Abdisalan M. Noor,P W Gikandi,Simon I. Hay,Simon I. Hay,R O Muga,Robert W. Snow,Robert W. Snow +6 more
TL;DR: These efforts to recreate a comprehensive, spatially defined list of health service providers has identified a number of weaknesses in existing national health management information systems, which with an increased commitment and minimal costs can be redressed.
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Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) for Decision-Making?
TL;DR: Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) are a measure of life years lost from disease, adjusted for assumptions about disability as well as the impact of age and future time as discussed by the authors.
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What is a "health system"
Richard D. Smith,Kara Hanson +1 more
TL;DR: The World Health Organization (2000) redefined the main purpose in its definition of a health system as “all activities whose primary purpose is to promote, restore, and maintain health.
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Foundations of Economic Analysis
TL;DR: Recent statistical techniques, including nonlinear programming, have been added to a basic survey of equilibrium systems, comparative statistics, consumer behavior theory, and cost and production theory as discussed by the authors, and they have been used in a variety of applications.
World development report 1993 : investing in health
Seth Berkley,Jose Luis Bobadilla,Robert Hecht,Kenneth Hill,Dean T. Jamison,Christopher J L Murray,Philip Musgrove,Helen Saxenian,Jee-Peng Tan +8 more
TL;DR: This report examines the controversial questions surrounding health care and health policy and advocates a threefold approach to health policy for governments in developing countries and in the formerly socialist countries, based in large part on innovative research.
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Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics, and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility
TL;DR: The naive concept of social welfare as a sum of intuitively measurable and comparable individual cardinal utilities has been found unable to withstand the methodological criticism of the Pareto school as mentioned in this paper and Professor Bergson has therefore recommended its replacement by the more general concept of a social welfare function, defined as an arbitrary mathematical function of economic (and other social) variables, of a form freely chosen according to one's personal ethical (or political) value judgments.