Resolving the challenges in the international comparison of health systems: The must do's and the trade-offs

Forde, Ian; Morgan, David; Klazinga, Niek

doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2013.01.018

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“…The DHCPR is connected to several international networks, such as the OECD Health Data, and exchanges experiences with several other countries. Organizations like the WHO, OECD, and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies contributed largely to the body of knowledge on the HSPA from which we can profit [21]. …”

Section: Lessons Learnedmentioning

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The Dutch health care performance report: seven years of health care performance assessment in the Netherlands

Berg

Kringos

Marks

et al. 2014

Health Res Policy Sys

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In 2006, the first edition of a monitoring tool for the performance of the Dutch health care system was released: the Dutch Health Care Performance Report (DHCPR). The Netherlands was among the first countries in the world developing such a comprehensive tool for reporting performance on quality, access, and affordability of health care. The tool contains 125 performance indicators; the choice for specific indicators resulted from a dialogue between researchers and policy makers. In the ‘policy cycle’, the DHCPR can rationally be placed between evaluation (accountability) and agenda-setting (for strategic decision making). In this paper, we reflect on important lessons learned after seven years of health care system performance assessment. These lessons entail the importance of a good conceptual framework for health system performance assessment, the importance of repeated measurement, the strength of combining multiple perspectives (e.g., patient, professional, objective, subjective) on the same issue, the importance of a central role for the patients’ perspective in performance assessment, how to deal with the absence of data in relevant domains, the value of international benchmarking and the continuous exchange between researchers and policy makers.

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Section: Lessons Learnedmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Dutch health care performance report: seven years of health care performance assessment in the Netherlands

Berg

Kringos

Marks

et al. 2014

Health Res Policy Sys

103

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“…• Co-payment 2 2 We use the term 'co-payment' to refer to co-payments and co-insurance. Both are cost-sharing arrangements which require the individual covered to pay part of the cost of care.…”

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“…Health data have a central role to play in supporting stewardship and decision-making by both policy makers and other stakeholders [1][2][3]. OECD Health Data are a well-known source for detailed information about health expenditure.…”

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Improved estimates of Belgian private health expenditure can give important lessons to other OECD countries

Calcoen

Moens

Verlinden³

et al. 2015

Health Policy

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“…3 Finally, even if much policy attention has been drawn to the large and persistent geographical variation in health-care expenditure, 4-6 we focused our analysis at country level. The use of more granular data would have made international comparisons diffi cult, 7 although we acknowledge that analyses at a lower geographical level might provide additional information about the possible causes of the trends observed. Data from OECD collections were complemented by national sources and publications.…”

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OECD Health Statistics

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The USA has exceptional levels of health-care expenditure, but growth has slowed dramatically in recent years, amidst major eff orts to close the coverage gap with other countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). We reviewed expenditure trends and key policies since 2000 in the USA and fi ve other highspending OECD countries. Higher health-sector prices explain much of the diff erence between the USA and other high-spending countries, and price dynamics are largely responsible for the slowdown in expenditure growth. Other high-spending countries did not face the same coverage challenges, and could draw from a broader set of policies to keep expenditure under control, but expenditure growth was similar to the USA. Tightening Medicare and Medicaid price controls on plans and providers, and leveraging the scale of the public programmes to increase effi ciency in fi nancing and care delivery, might prevent a future economic recovery from off setting the slowdown in health sector prices and expenditure growth.

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Resolving the challenges in the international comparison of health systems: The must do's and the trade-offs

Cited by 29 publications

References 2 publications

The Dutch health care performance report: seven years of health care performance assessment in the Netherlands

The Dutch health care performance report: seven years of health care performance assessment in the Netherlands

Improved estimates of Belgian private health expenditure can give important lessons to other OECD countries

OECD Health Statistics

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