Learning From the European Experience of Using Targets to Improve Population Health

Health targets have become a widely used instrument to promote population health. We describe the experience in England, where the use of targets has reached the most advanced stage of development, and other European countries. The experience demonstrates that targets may change the behavior of a he...

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Autores principales: Smith, Peter C., Busse, Reinhard
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2938396/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20712929
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description Health targets have become a widely used instrument to promote population health. We describe the experience in England, where the use of targets has reached the most advanced stage of development, and other European countries. The experience demonstrates that targets may change the behavior of a health system, probably to a larger extent than many other policy instruments, if incentives are aligned correctly and if measures to deal with unintended effects are put in place.
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spelling pubmed-29383962010-09-30 Learning From the European Experience of Using Targets to Improve Population Health Smith, Peter C. Busse, Reinhard Prev Chronic Dis Special Topic Health targets have become a widely used instrument to promote population health. We describe the experience in England, where the use of targets has reached the most advanced stage of development, and other European countries. The experience demonstrates that targets may change the behavior of a health system, probably to a larger extent than many other policy instruments, if incentives are aligned correctly and if measures to deal with unintended effects are put in place. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2010-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2938396/ /pubmed/20712929 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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