Health Status and Health Policy: Quality of Life in Health Care Evaluation and Resource Allocation - Hardcover

Patrick, Donald L., Ph.D.; Erickson, Pennifer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195050274 ISBN 13: 9780195050271

Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

This practical work provides a systematic guide to state-of-the-art development and application of health status and quality-of-life measures for health care policy and research. It explains how to allocate health resources by comparing costs and outcomes of alternative health policies to identify those with greatest benefit in relation to cost. The book outlines how to collect and organize data to calculate the cost per year of healthy life gained for competing interventions. The use of these data in a social and political decision-making process based on community values and objectives is then discussed. Valuable guidelines are presented for assessing health and quality of life in program evaluation, monitoring of health policy, clinical trials, and health services research. Each chapter contributes to the development and application of health and quality of life outcomes to the major health decisions in the 1990s, including preventing disease and promoting health, assessing the costs and benefits of technology, and improving health care access.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0195050274
• ISBN 13: 9780195050271
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 503
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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