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Assessing health system performance: a model-based approach.

John Gerring1, Strom C Thacker, Ruben Enikolopov

  • 1Department of Political Science, Boston University, 232 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215, USA. jgerring@bu.edu

Social Science & Medicine (1982)
|August 3, 2013
PubMed
Summary

Assessing national public health performance is challenging due to varying country conditions. This study introduces a model-based approach to measure health system performance, focusing on factors beyond structural constraints for better international comparisons.

Keywords:
Global healthHealth policy assessmentHealth policy performance

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Area of Science:

  • Health Policy and Systems Research
  • Comparative Health Outcomes
  • Public Health Surveillance

Background:

  • Directly comparing national public health outcomes is difficult due to diverse socioeconomic and environmental factors.
  • Existing methods often fail to account for the wide range of background conditions influencing health.
  • A standardized approach is needed to accurately evaluate health system performance across different countries.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel model-based methodology for assessing national health system performance.
  • To create a metric that isolates health system effectiveness from country-specific endowments.
  • To provide a tool for more accurate cross-national and longitudinal comparisons of public health.

Main Methods:

  • A public health index was regressed against a comprehensive set of national endowments (economic, educational, cultural, geographic, epidemiological).
  • The residual of this regression model serves as the measure of health system performance.
  • This approach controls for background conditions to isolate system-specific contributions to health outcomes.

Main Results:

  • The model-based approach provides a residual measure that reflects health system performance independent of structural factors.
  • This method allows for a more nuanced understanding of how effectively health systems operate within their unique contexts.
  • Performance is evaluated based on the health outcomes achieved relative to the country's potential, given its endowments.

Conclusions:

  • A model-based residual analysis offers a robust method for assessing national health system performance.
  • This approach enhances the accuracy of cross-country health comparisons by accounting for differing background conditions.
  • The findings support policymakers and academics in identifying areas where health systems can improve beyond inherent national advantages or disadvantages.