Accounting for health and health care approaches to measuring the sources and costs of their improvement

• Corporate Author: National Research Council (U.S.) Panel to Advance a Research Program on the Design of National Health Accounts
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, D.C National Academies Press 2010
• Subjects: Accounting > United States; Health Expenditures > United States; National Health Programs > United States; Public Health > conomics > United States
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It has become trite to observe that increases in health care costs have become unsustainable. How best for policy to address these increases, however, depends in part on the degree to which they represent increases in the real quantity of medical services as opposed to increased unit prices of exist...

Table of Contents:

• Health data and health policy
• Medical care accounts and health accounts : structure and data
• Allocating medical expenditures : a treatment-of-disease organizing framework
• Measuring prices and quantities of medical care : improving medical care price indexes
• Defining and measuring population health
• Linking population health to the array of health inputs.