Research Catalog

Title

Getting better : improving health system outcomes in Europe and Central Asia / Owen Smith and Son Nam Nguyen.

Author

Smith, Owen, 1973-

Publication

• Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, [2013]
• ©2013

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Additional Authors

• Nguyen, Son Nam
• World Bank issuing body.

Description

xviii, 192 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

Health is a major development challenge facing Europe and Central Asia (ECA) today. Living long and healthy lives matters as much as achieving ever-higher incomes. This report is about how to improve health system outcomes in countries in the ECA region. This report, which explores the development challenge facing health sectors in ECA, identifies three key agendas for achieving more rapid convergence with the world's best-performing health systems: the first is the health agenda, in which the main imperative is to strengthen public health and primary-care interventions to help achieve the cardiovascular revolution that has taken place in the West in recent decades. The second is the financing agenda, in which growing demand for medical care must be satisfied without imposing an undue burden on households, by achieving better financial protection, or on government budgets, by ensuring a more efficient use of resources. The third agenda relates to broader institutional arrangements. Here, a few key reform ingredients are identified, each of which is common to most advanced health systems but lacking in many ECA countries.

Series Statement

Europe and Central Asia reports

Uniform Title

Europe and Central Asia reports.

Subject

• Quality Assurance, Health Care > economics
• Health Policy
• Delivery of Health Care > standards
• Quality Assurance, Health Care > organization & administration
• Delivery of Health Care > standards > Asia, Central
• Health Policy > Asia, Central
• Quality Assurance, Health Care > economics > Asia, Central
• Medical care > Asia, Central > Quality control
• Medical care > Europe, Eastern > Quality control
• Medical policy > Asia, Central
• Medical policy > Europe, Eastern
• Medical care > Asia, Central > Finance
• Medical care > Europe, Eastern > Finance
• Europe, Eastern
• Asia, Central

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Getting better? : in search of convergence -- Improving welfare : the value of health -- Improving health : the heart of the matter -- Improving financial protection and equity : a safety net for all -- Improving efficiency : cutting the fat -- Improving institutions : ingredients, not recipes -- Summary Q & A.

ISBN

• 9780821398838 (alk. paper)
• 0821398830 (alk. paper)
• 9780821398845 (eISBN) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013009644

OCLC

828892522

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library