Global Comparative Assessments in the Health Sector: Disease Burden, Expenditures and Intervention Packages
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Book
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ISBN 10
9241561750
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9789241561754
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Publication Year
1994
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Pages
196
Abstract
Summary
Shows how a new way of assessing the world health situation can be used to generate health data unprecedented in their completeness, comparability, and objectivity. Already recognized as capable of revolutionizing the processes of priority setting and resource allocation in the health sector, the approach was first used to develop the empirical basis for the World development report 1993: Investing in health. Nearly 100 disease experts collaborated in this project.
The book, which has two parts, discusses the methods, findings, and implications of the first comprehensive assessment of the global burden of disease, of the financial resources available to the health sector in every country, and of the options for cost-effective interventions.
Articles in part one describe the concept, applications, and results of the use of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for measuring the global burden of disease. The indicator, which measures the time lived with a disability and the time lost due to premature mortality, has been used to estimate the burden of disease due to more than 100 causes, for five age groups, by sex, throughout the world. Detailed information is given on the technical basis of DALYs, global and regional cause-of-death patterns, methods for quantifying the health consequences of disabilities, and the main findings and implications of the global burden of disease approach.
Articles in part two provide comparative assessments of financial resources
This is the most useful toolbox for health policy analysis I have ever seen. It represents the greatest methodological innovation in the last 20 years for the dialogue among health policy makers, economists and politicians."
- Juan Luis Londo±o, Ph.D., Minister of Health of Colombia, 1992-1994 - from Amzon
Shows how a new way of assessing the world health situation can be used to generate health data unprecedented in their completeness, comparability, and objectivity. Already recognized as capable of revolutionizing the processes of priority setting and resource allocation in the health sector, the approach was first used to develop the empirical basis for the World development report 1993: Investing in health. Nearly 100 disease experts collaborated in this project.
The book, which has two parts, discusses the methods, findings, and implications of the first comprehensive assessment of the global burden of disease, of the financial resources available to the health sector in every country, and of the options for cost-effective interventions.
Articles in part one describe the concept, applications, and results of the use of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for measuring the global burden of disease. The indicator, which measures the time lived with a disability and the time lost due to premature mortality, has been used to estimate the burden of disease due to more than 100 causes, for five age groups, by sex, throughout the world. Detailed information is given on the technical basis of DALYs, global and regional cause-of-death patterns, methods for quantifying the health consequences of disabilities, and the main findings and implications of the global burden of disease approach.
Articles in part two provide comparative assessments of financial resources
This is the most useful toolbox for health policy analysis I have ever seen. It represents the greatest methodological innovation in the last 20 years for the dialogue among health policy makers, economists and politicians."
- Juan Luis Londo±o, Ph.D., Minister of Health of Colombia, 1992-1994 - from Amzon
Description
196 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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1
