| Title : | Health Targets in Europe : Learning from Experience | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Matthias Wismar, Editor ; Martin McKee, Editor ; Kelly Ernst, Editor | | Publisher: | Copenhagen : European observatory on helth systems and policies | | Publication Date: | 2008 | | Series: | Observatory Studies Series No. 13 | | Pagination: | ix, 164 p. | | Size: | 24 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-92-89042-84-0 | | General note: | Includes bibliographical referneces
| | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | Health policy
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| | Class number: | 362.2 | | Abstract: | Health targets have been proposed as a tool to improve the governance of health systems. Health targets express a commitment to achieve specified outputs in a defined time period, and enable monitoring of progress towards the achievement of broader goals and objectives. They may be quantitative or qualitative, and based on outcomes or processes. However, like any tool, they must be used appropriately or they could lead to unintended or undesirable consequences.
As governments strive to improve the performance of their health systems, it is timely to assess the experiences of those countries or regions that have employed targets. This book draws on a series of case studies written by experts from Catalonia (Spain), England (United Kingdom), Flanders (Belgium), France, Germany, Hungary and the Russian Federation. The book reviews the major technical, managerial and political challenges surrounding the definition and implementation of health targets. It concludes that they do offer scope to focus attention on agreed goals but, in order to realize their potential, they need to be based on evidence, accepted by those who must work to achieve them, be embedded in frameworks of mutual accountability, linked to appropriate incentive and/or sanction mechanisms and supported by an adequate intelligence infrastructure. | | Contents note: | Divya Srivastava, Martin McKee: Emergence of Health Targets: Some Basic; Martin McKee: On target? Monitoring and Evaluation; Kelly Ernst, Matthias Wismar, Reinhard Busse, Martin McKee: Improving the Effectiveness of Health Targets; Ricard Tresserras, Pilar Brugulat: Catalonia : Improved Intelligence and Accountability; Peter C. Smith: England : Intended and Unintended effects; Stephan Van den Broucke: Flanders : Health Targets as a Catalyst for Action; Valerie Paris, Dominique Polton: France : Targeting Investment in Health; Matthias Wismar, Barbara Philippi, Hildegard Klus: Targets in a Federal System; Zoltan Voko, Roza Adany: Hungary: Targets Driving Improved Health; Kirill Danishevski: The Russian Federation : Difficult History of Target Setting; | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=14187 |
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