Indicators and Trends in Health and Health Care

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Indicators and Trends in Health and Health Care: Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
An Indicator System for the Evaluation of Public Health Programmes: The Case of the Region of Piedmont....Pages 7-19
Review of Computerized Information Systems in the Health Area and Their Implication for Long-Term Care....Pages 21-22
OECD Experiences with the Initiation and Coordination of Health Indicator Systems, with Special Emphasis on Interinstitutional Coordination and Comparability....Pages 23-36
Health Surveillance in Europe: An Indicator-Based Reporting System....Pages 37-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Demographic Indicator Systems of Health Care Needs....Pages 71-77
Comments on the Paper “Demographic Indicator Systems of Health Care Needs”....Pages 79-83
Some Remarks on the Applied Theory of Heterogeneous Populations....Pages 85-86
Projecting Long-Term Trends in Health Manpower: Methodological Problems....Pages 87-107
Long-Term Trends in Health Care: The Post-Physician Era Reconsidered....Pages 109-115
Projecting Welfare Trends from the Past to the Future: The Example of Sweden....Pages 117-123
Economics, Politics and Health: The Challenge of Future Trends (A Think-Piece)....Pages 125-131