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

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• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Smith, Peter C. ; Busse, Reinhard
• 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.
• Subjects:
  Delivery Of Health Care Health Care Reform Health Planning Health Services Needs And Demand Motivation Public Health
• Source:
  Prev Chronic Dis. 7(5).
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Europe ; United States
• Location:
  Europe ; North America
• Volume:
  7
• Issue:
  5
• Collection(s):
  Preventing Chronic Disease
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:11352f694f1c44ea6af407357728700aa95c22932df2cc196685a09b4c781f82898eebf1c05f0950b691f7ee1c20034acd7b3d77396b13c2775e218a7b6ade09
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/20493/cdc_20493_DS1.pdf
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