A critique of the World Health Organisation's evaluation of health system performance

Health Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 355-366

  Richardson, Jeff ^a   Wildman, John ^b   Robertson, Iain K ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Health system; Performance; WHO; World Health Organisation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH ECONOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SOCIAL JUSTICE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0038290392     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.761     Document Type: Article

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