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Accounting for Health and Health Care : Approaches to Measuring the Sources and Costs of Their Improvement.

"It has become trite to observe that increases in health care costs have become unsustainable. How best for policy to address these increases, however, depends in part on the degree to which they represent increases in the real quantity of medical services as opposed to increased unit prices of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Accounts, Panel to Advance a Research Program on the Design of National Health
Otros Autores: Council, National Research
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington : National Academies Press, 2010.
Colección:Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • FrontMatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Abstract
  • Summary
  • 1 Health Data and Health Policy
  • 2 Medical Care Accounts and Health Accounts: Structure and Data
  • 3 Allocating Medical Expenditures: A Treatment-of-Disease Organizing Framework
  • 4 Measuring Prices and Quantities of Medical Care: Improving Medical Care Price Indexes
  • 5 Defining and Measuring Population Health
  • 6 Linking Population Health to the Array of Health Inputs
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix A: The Potential Role of Various Data Sources in a National Health AccountAppendix B: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
  • Committee on National Statistics