210 Citations
The who world health report 2000 — expectation and assessment
- Medicine, Political Science
- 2002
The innovations and shortcomings of the World Health Report 2000 are assessed and two alternative approaches to evaluate the performance of health systems are discussed: health system indicators and health system profiles.
The World Health Report 2000: 10 years on.
- Political ScienceHealth policy and planning
- 2010
The publication of the World Health Report 2000 was an act of remarkable courage (WHO 2000) and those governments that scored highly, while others, such as Brazil, that came much lower, formally expressed their displeasure at the WHO Executive Board.
The World Health Report 2000: World Health Organization Health Policy Steering off Course—Changed Values, Poor Evidence, and Lack of Accountability
- Political Science, MedicineInternational journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation
- 2002
The World Health Report 2000 has raised concerns about its political biases, its methods and indicators, and its lack of reliable data, but this article argues that it counteracts many of the concerns that gave rise to preparation of the Report in the first place.
The World Health Report 2000: dialogue of the deaf?
- Medicine, Political ScienceHealth economics
- 2002
The World Health Report 2000, WHR 2000, was published in June 2000 and was a league table for the performance of the world’s 191 health systems based on a weighted composite index of three so-called intrinsic goals: Health, financing and responsiveness.
Can the WHO Health Report improve the performance of health systems?
- Medicine, Political ScienceScandinavian journal of public health
- 2001
The present analysis is critical of the methodology used in the WHO report and calls for alternative ways of comparing health systems in different countries to be discussed.
WHO's World Health Report 2003
- Medicine, Political ScienceBMJ : British Medical Journal
- 2004
The message of the new director general, Dr Lee Jong-wook contrasts the injustice of parts of the world where there are expectations of longer and more comfortable lives, with other parts where there is despair over the failure to control disease.
The World Health Report 2000: A Case Study on The Indonesia National Health System
- Psychology
- 2010
The World Health Report (WHR) 2000, which focused on improving health system performance, has been a lot of pro and cons. This article assesses critically the WHR 2000 for Indonesia health system. It…
Building integrated health systems in central and eastern Europe: an analysis of WHO and World Bank views and their relevance to health systems in transition.
- Medicine, Political ScienceEuropean journal of public health
- 2003
It is argued that CEEC and NIS need to anticipate an ageing population and growing numbers of chronically ill, and call for integrated health care systems and more integrated funding and payment systems.
International comparisons of the quality of health care: what do they tell us?
- Medicine, Political ScienceQuality & safety in health care
- 2003
For healthcare providers in many countries like the UK who have been subjected to the publication of various hospital league tables, mortality comparisons and other performance measures over recent years, there was a certain “schadenfreude” to be had in watching the reactions of defensiveness, discomfort, and denial from politicians and commentators from countries which had done badly.
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- PsychologySocial science & medicine
- 2001
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- Economics, Political ScienceInternational journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation
- 2001
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