Health outcomes : biological, social, and economic perspectives

Author(s)

• Macbeth, Helen M.

Bibliographic Information

Health outcomes : biological, social, and economic perspectives

edited by Helen M. Macbeth

（Biosocial Society series / series editor, G.A. Harrison, 8）

Oxford University Press, 1996

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The costs of health care are much debated, but any study of these costs require measurement of what has been achieved by the health care. The results of health care have come to be known as 'health outcomes' and this book discusses the multiple angles involved in defining and measuring these outcomes. This book is deliberately cross-disciplinary, and looks at the topic thoroughly from the perspectives of different academic and practical angles.

Table of Contents

• 1. Health outcomes: the socio-historical context
• 2. Health outcomes from a medical perspective
• 3. Sociological approaches to health outcomes
• 4. Valuation as measurement: an economist's approach to rendering health care outcomes commensurable

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Details

• NCID: BA28193265
• ISBN:
  • 0198548796
• LCCN: 95026853
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 166 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RA399.A1
  • DC20 : 362.1
  • NDC7 : 498
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Medical care -- Evaluation
  • LCSH : Medical care, Cost of
  • LCSH : Health status indicators
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0434456X