Health System Performance Comparison: An Agenda for Policy, Information and Research
Foreword by Paola Testori Coggi
Foreword by Mark Pearson
1: Introduction
Irene Papanicolas and Peter C. Smith
2: International frameworks for health system comparison
Irene Papanicolas
3: International comparisons of health systems
Irene Papanicolas and Peter C. Smith
4: Benchmarking: lessons and implications for health systems
Andy Neely
5: Comparing population health
Marina Karanikolos, Bernadette Khoshaba, Ellen Nolte and Martin McKee
6: Comparing health services outcomes
Niek Klazinga and Lilian Li
7: Conceptualizing and comparing equity across nations
Cristina Hernández-Quevedo and Irene Papanicolas
8: Measuring and comparing financial protection
Rodrigo Moreno-Serra, Sarah Thomson and Ke Xu
9: Understanding satisfaction, responsiveness and experience with the health system
Reinhard Busse
10: Comparative measures of health system efficiency
Jonathan Cylus and Peter C. Smith
11: Commentary on international health system performance information
Nick Fahy
12: Conclusions
Irene Papanicolas and Peter C. Smith
This timely and authoritative book offers an important summary of the current developments in health system performance comparison. It summarises the current state of efforts to compare systems, and identifies and explores the practical and conceptual challenges that occur. It discusses data and methodological challenges, as well as broader issues such as the interface between evidence and practice.
The book draws out the priorities for future work on performance comparison, in the development of data sources and measurement instruments, analytic methodology, and assessment of evidence on performance. It concludes by presenting the key lessons and future priorities, and in doing so offers a rich source of material for policy-makers, their analytic advisors, international agencies, academics and students of health systems.