Accounting for Health and Health Care:

Approaches to Measuring the Sources and Costs of Their Improvement

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Publication Year:2010

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Panel to Advance a Research Program on the Design of National Health Accounts; National Research Council
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Front Matter	i-xxii
Summary	1-16	(skim)
1 Health Data and Health Policy	17-26	(skim)
2 Medical Care Accounts and Health Accounts: Structure and Data	27-70	(skim)
3 Allocating Medical Expenditures: A Treatment-of-Disease Organizing Framework	71-94	(skim)
4 Measuring Prices and Quantities of Medical Care: Improving Medical Care Price Indexes	95-118	(skim)
5 Defining and Measuring Population Health	119-142	(skim)
6 Linking Population Health to the Array of Health Inputs	143-186	(skim)
Bibliography	187-204	(skim)
Appendix A: The Potential Role of Various Data Sources in a National Health Account	205-210	(skim)
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff	211-214	(skim)
Committee on National Statistics	215-216	(skim)

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It has become trite to observe that increases in health care costs have become unsustainable. How best for policy to address these increases, however, depends in part on the degree to which they represent increases in the real quantity of medical services as opposed to increased unit prices of existing services. And an even more fundamental question is the degree to which the increased spending actually has purchased improved health.

Accounting for Health and Health Care addresses both these issues. The government agencies responsible for measuring unit prices for medical services have taken steps in recent years that have greatly improved the accuracy of those measures. Nonetheless, this book has several recommendations aimed at further improving the price indices.

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Approaches to Measuring the Sources and Costs of Their Improvement

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