Measuring Health : : Lessons for Ontario / / Anthony Culyer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Culyer, Anthony,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (198 p.)

Planning and evaluating any health care program is a formidable task: how do you measure the health of a population? This fundamental question has been approached from various perspectives in medical, administrative, and economic studies. This book provides a guide to health measurement literature and relates it to Ontario's current and prospective policy choices and to the federal context of health indicators and indices to existing statistics in Ontario in a county-by-county survey of the province's health care. He also outlines the kinds of information essential to health assessment but not currently available. The book as a whole emphasizes the importance of health care measurement in the humane and efficient planning of health services. It will be of interest to all concerned with the practice of medicine in the 1980s and the planning of health services at the federal and provincial levels, as well as to those with a special interest in health from the economic, political, and sociological perspectives.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Indicators and indexes: an overview -- 3. The public interest and private interests -- 4. Health measurement in the public interest -- 5. Trade-offs and values in health measures -- 6. Uses and users of health measures -- 7. Regional health patterns in Ontario -- 8. Health status measurement and health care planning in Ontario -- Bibliography