Comparative Health Systems: Descriptive Analyses of Fourteen National Health Systems (Book).

Comparative efficiency of national health systems: cross national econometric analysis.

OBJECTIVE To improve the evidence base for health policy by devising a method to measure and monitor the performance of health systems. DESIGN Estimation of the relation between levels of population health and the inputs used to produce health. SETTING 191 countries. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Health system efficiency (performance). RESULTS Estimated efficiency varied from nearly fully effici...

Comparative Health Systems, the future of national health care systems, an economic analysis : France

The Comparative Efficiency of National Health Systems in Producing Health: an Analysis of 191 Countries

A Case for Open Network Health Systems: Systems as Networks in Public Mental Health

Increases in incidents involving so-called confused persons have brought attention to the potential costs of recent changes to public mental health (PMH) services in the Netherlands. Decentralized under the (Community) Participation Act (2014), local governments must find resources to compensate for reduced central funding to such services or “innovate.” But innovation, even when pressure for c...

The Governance of Health Systems; Comment on “A Network Based Theory of Health Systems and Cycles of Well-Being”

Health systems research aims to understand the governance of health systems (i.e. how health systems function and perform and how their actors interact with each other). This can be achieved by applying innovative methodologies and concepts that are going to capture the complexity and dynamics of health systems when they are affected by shocks. The capacity of health systems to adapt to shocks ...