Improving the measurement of health system output growth

A. Castelli; D. Dawson; H. Gravelle; A. Street

doi:10.1002/hec.1211

Improving the measurement of health system output growth

A. Castelli, D. Dawson, H. Gravelle, A. Street

Centre for Health Economics

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Abstract

National income accounting practice is to weight health service activities by their cost so that they can be aggregated into an output index. Quality changes are ignored. We propose an 'ideal' value weighted output index in which the value attached to each output reflects its contribution to health outcomes and other characteristics valued by patients. Calculation of the index for the health system as a whole is currently infeasible because of a lack of data, especially on health outcomes. We demonstrate alternative ways of combining health outcome data with existing information on post-treatment survival, life expectancy and waiting times to construct quality adjusted cost weighted and health outcome weighted indices for a small set of hospital activities for which there are health outcome data. Copyright (C) 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1091-1107
Number of pages	16
Journal	Health Economics
Volume	16
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.1211
Publication status	Published - Oct 2007

Keywords

productivity
health output
QALY
waiting times
national accounts
CARE

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