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July 01, 2004
Evaluating the Healthcare System: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity, Third Edition
Authors: Lu Ann Aday, Charles E. Begley, David R. Lairson, Rajesh Balkrishnan
ISBN: 1-56793-222-3
Publisher: Health Administration Press
The book provides an excellent framework for understanding and evaluating healthcare systems and change. By focusing separately on the key system outcomes (effectiveness, efficiency, and equity) and carefully laying out relevant concepts before applying them to major policy issues, the authors provide an unusually thorough treatment of the field of health services research.
-Thomas Rice, Ph.D., Professor of Health Services
University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Health
This upcoming third edition defines and illustrates the measurement and relevance of effectiveness, efficiency, and equity as criteria for evaluating healthcare system performance. Specific examples of the application of health services research in addressing contemporary health policy problems at the national, state, and local level are presented.
This new edition will include a significant amount of new material. In particular, the book will draw upon a growing body of research on the social and economic determinants of population health, and explore the distinct and complementary roles of health services and public health research and policy in improving the health of individuals and communities.
An important healthcare and public health problem area woven throughout the book in demonstrating the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity concepts in the context of these issues is breast and cervical cancer prevention and treatment and related cancer morbidity and mortality outcomes. This example provides a useful opportunity to explore the medical and non-medical predictors of health and healthcare disparities, the role of primary versus secondary prevention, and the utility of the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity benchmarks in guiding the design of state and federal policy to ameliorate disparities.
For more information go to: HAP
Hardbound, approximately 350 pp
Order code: WWW1-2013
Price: $72.00
Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction to Health Services Research and Policy Analysis
- Appendix 1.1 Healthy People 2010 Leading Health Indicators
- 2 Effectiveness: Concepts and Methods
- 3 Effectiveness: Policy Strategies, Evidence, and Criteria
- 4 Efficiency: Concepts and Methods
- 5 Efficiency: Policy Strategies, Evidence, and Criteria
- 6 Equity: Concepts and Methods
- 7 Equity: Policy Strategies, Evidence, and Criteria
- Appendix 7.1 Highlights of Selected Indicators of Equity of Access to Healthcare
- 8 Integrating Health Services Research and Policy Analysis
- 9 Applying Health Services Research to Policy Analysis
- Index
- About the Authors
