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Efficiency and Attainment

These documents are organized alphabetically, though responses are grouped with the original document. Recent publications are marked new.gif (160 bytes). For the complete list of debates, by topic, click here.

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Appleby J, Street A. Health system goals: life, death, and....football. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 2001, 6(4):220-5.
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Evans DB, Tandon A, Murray CJ, Lauer JA. Comparative efficiency of national health systems: cross national econometric analysis. BMJ, 2001, 323(7308):307-10.
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Evans DB, Tan-Torres Edejer T, Lauer J, Frenk J, Murray CJL. Measuring quality: from the system to the provider. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2001, 13(6):439-446.

Reproduced with permission from the International Journal for Quality in Health Care and Oxford University Press.
© 2001 International Journal for Quality in Health Care and Oxford University Press

new.gif (160 bytes)Hollingsworth B and Wildman J. The efficiency of health production: re-estimating the WHO panel data using parametric and non-parametric approaches to provide additional information [in press]. Health Economics, forthcoming. Published online 23 August 2002 at www.interscience.wiley.com.
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Jamison DT, Sandbu ME. Global health: who ranking of health system performance. Science, 2001, 293(5535):1595-6.
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McKee M. Measuring the efficiency of health systems. The world health report sets the agenda, but there's still a long way to go. BMJ, 2001, 323(7308):295-6.
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Pedersen KM, The World Health Report 2000: dialogue of the deaf? Health Economics, 2002, 11: 93-101.
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Rosén M. Can the WHO Health Report improve the performance of health systems? Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2001, 29(1):76-80.
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Why rank countries by health performance? Editorial. Lancet, 2001, 357(9269):1633.

Reprinted with permission from Elsevier Science (The Lancet, 2001, 357, 1633).

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Wibulpolprasert S, Tangcharoensathien V. Health systems performance--what's next? Editorial. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2001, 79(6):489.

GPE discussion papers. For a complete list, click here.

Murray CJL, Frenk J. A WHO framework for health system performance assessment. Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy Discussion Paper Series: No. 6. World Health Organization.
Evans DB, Tandon A, Murray CJL, Lauer JA. The comparative efficiency of national health systems in producing health: an analysis of 191 countries. Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy Discussion Paper Series: No. 29. World Health Organization.
Tandon A, Murray CJL, Lauer JA, Evans DB. Measuring overall health system performance for 191 countries. Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy Discussion Paper Series: No. 30. World Health Organization.

 

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