Analysing health care systems performance: The story behind the statistics

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 642-644

  Healy, Judith ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b European Observ on Hlth Care Sys   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIA; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MODEL; PERFORMANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

EID: 0346970657     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2003.tb00613.x     Document Type: Review

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