- Additional Authors
- Description
- 103 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.
- Summary
- The Ageing-Related Diseases study compares health care systems by examining treatment trends and health outcomes on a disease-by-disease basis. Most of the day-to-day decisions that determine health care system performance are made in treating specific diseases. Therefore, the ARD's bottom-up approach to comparing health care system performance at the disease level, rather than the more common top-down approach, goes to the heart of health care system performance. This paper presents such an analysis for stroke.There is considerable variation in treatment trends for the same diseases across countries and much of this variation can be explained by differences in structural characteristics of health care systems. A diseaselevel analysis begins with an examination of these characteristics: the economic incentives, policies and regulations that affect individual providers' decisions for treating a specific disease, defining a particular health care system's approach. In order ...
- Series Statement
- OECD Health Working Papers, 1815-2015 ; no.5
- Uniform Title
- OECD Health Working Papers, no.5.
- Subject
- Social Issues/Migration/Health
- LCCN
- 10.1787/380362605045
- OCLC
- oecd-lib
- Author
Moon, Lynelle.
- Title
Stroke Care in OECD Countries [electronic resource]: A Comparison of Treatment, Costs and Outcomes in 17 Countries / Lynelle Moon, Pierre Moïse and Stéphane Jacobzone
- Imprint
Paris : OECD Publishing, 2003.
- Series
OECD Health Working Papers, 1815-2015 ; no.5
OECD Health Working Papers, 1815-2015 ; no.5.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Social Issues/Migration/Health
- Added Author
Moïse, Pierre.
Jacobzone, Stéphane.
- Other Standard Identifier
10.1787/380362605045 doi