Many countries face the persistent twin challenge of providing high-quality care while keeping health systems affordable and accessible. As a result, the interest for more efficient strategies to stimulate population health is increasing. A possible successful strategy is population management...

Healthcare expenditures rise as a share of GDP in most countries, raising questions regarding the value of further spending increases. Against this backdrop, we assessed the value of healthcare spending growth in 14 western countries between 1996 and 2006. We estimated macro-level health...

Similar to several other countries, the Netherlands implemented market-oriented health care reforms in recent years. Previous studies raised questions on the effects of these reforms on key outcomes such as quality, costs, and prices. The empirical evidence is up to now mixed. This study looked...

This article describes the methodological challenges associated with disease-based international comparison of health system performance and how they have been addressed in the EuroHOPE (European Health Care Outcomes, Performance and Efficiency) project. The project uses linkable patient-level...

Objective Evaluating the impact of disease management programs on healthcare expenditures for patients with diabetes, depression, heart failure or COPD.Methods Systematic Pubmed search for studies reporting the impact of disease management programs on healthcare expenditures. Included were...

Objectives To assess international comparability of general cost of illness (COI) studies and to examine the extent to which COI estimates differ and why.Methods Five general COI studies were examined. COI estimates were classified by health provider using the system of health accounts (SHA)....