Castelli, Adriana; Dawson, Diane; Gravelle, Hugh; … - In: Health Economics 16 (2007) 10, pp. 1091-1107
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...