It provides conceptual insights into the complex factors that explain how health systems perform, and offers practical advice on how to assess performance and achieve improvements with available. Effective interventions exist for many priority health problems in low income countries. The regional office for europe of the world health organization welcomes requests for permission to reprod uce or translate its publications, in part or in full. Improving performance, also emphasized the importance of assessing health systems performance as a first step to improve health outcomes. Published on 01 jun 2000 view original download pdf 1.
It was argued that systems should contribute to improving population health, be. The key event regarding the context of the report was the election in 1998 of a new director general for the world health organization who, which. Can health care systems be compared using a single measure of performance. The findings are published today, 21 june, in the world health report 2000 health systems. In the letter convening the fiftythird world health assembly, member. The world health report 2000 sought to overcome this problem by adopting a very broad definition of a health system as all the activities whose primary purpose is to promote, restore or maintain health who 2000 box 2.
I hope it will be a landmark publication in the field of health systems development. Tropical medicine and international health, 10, 675677. The third source is the data for each scale of health system performance, which was derived from the whos world health report 2000health systems. The world health report 2000 introduced a conceptual framework and measurement approach to examine and compare aspects of health systems around the world, and better understand the complex factors that explain how health systems perform. Pdf on jan 1, 2001, m daher and others published health systems. The world health report 2000 on health systems has raised concerns about its political. Improving performance, world health organization,2000. This report is an analysis of the influence of health in the daily lives of people worldwide. The world health organization recently published a performance ranking of the health systems of its 191 member countries, and intends to update it at regular intervals 14. Performance measurement for health system improvement. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search.
There are two aspects of the whr 2000 that are worth considering. It was based on a framework outlining a set of social goals to which health systems should contribute. The world health report as gobetween for scientific evidence and ideological discourse editorial. There is much less agreement on quite how to strengthen them.
Record citations university of kansas medical center. The world health report 2000 who library cataloguing in publication data the world health report 2000. The world health report 2000 find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Essential public health functions improving health systems. It presents the main policy conclusions drawn in the final report, which synthesized key findings from studies conducted as part of the threeyear project and other recent work on health at the oecd. Bulletin france has the best overall health system performance based on data published in the world health report 2000 health systems. The report evaluates the worlds health care systems according to three characteristicseffectiveness, responsiveness to users, and the progressivity of their fundingthen uses these evaluations to rank countries. The publication of the world health report 2000 was an act of. Improving performance in pdf or epub format and read it directly on your mobile phone, computer or any device. Download the ebook the world health report 2000 health systems. Evaluation of health care systems contributions made by. You will need to download adobe acrobat reader to view them. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. The conceptual framework underlying the rankings 2 proposed that health systems should be as.
This report serves as an executive summary of the final report on the oecd health project, towards highperforming health systems. Reinhardt and others published the world health report 2000 health systems. World health organization the world health report 2000. Improving the performance of health systems around the world is the raison detre of this report. The public versus the world health organization on health. The world health report 2000 is an expert analysis of the increasingly important influence of health systems in the daily lives of people worldwide. A health system, also sometimes referred to as health care system or as healthcare system, is the organization of people, institutions, and resources that deliver health care services to meet the health needs of target populations there is a wide variety of health systems around the world, with as many histories and organizational structures as there are nations. The world health report 2000 is a product of those concerns. On june 24, 2000, the world health organization published its world health report 2000, health systems. Improving performance and the health system of united arab emirates uae. Tool for assessing the performance of the health system. Youve reached a citation within the knowledge repository, a library of resources on healthcare design topics. It is underpinned by the belief that performance of health systems can, and should, be measured and that governments should be held accountable for such performance.
Improving performance, has been highly visible in the professional and popular media. Our challenge is to gain a better understanding of the factors that make a difference. Overcoming healthsystems constraints to achieve the. The world health organizations recent report, health systems. There is increasing consensus that stronger health systems are key to achieving improved health outcomes. Surprisingly, the united states is ranked in 37th place. To an unprecedented degree it takes account of the role of people as providers and consumers of health services, as financial contributors to health systems, as workers within them, and as citizens engaged in their. The world health report whr 2000 focuses on heath systems. Professor of economics and public affairs, woodrow wilson school, princeton university, princeton nj 0844410, usa. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle. The decennial of the world health report 2000 whr 2000 may be such an auspicious occasion who 2000. This framework was identified in the world health report 2000 health systems. Improving performance, which ranked countries according to an overall single indicator of the performance of their health care systems. The full text of this article is available as a pdf 153k.