Purchasing population health: Aligning financial incentives to improve health outcomes

Nursing Outlook

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-22

  Kindig, David A ^a,b  

^a Department of Preventive Medicine ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Determinants; Health; Incentives; Outcomes; Population

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH PLANNING; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032604046     PISSN: 00296554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-6554(99)90037-4     Document Type: Article

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