Re: Scraping foetus off the wheel
[ QUOTE ]
The end-result measurement (such as infant mortality rate) is the most important statistic.
What good is it to have "low cost per capita" or "good quality" (however that is pre-determined!) and have infants dying off in significant numbers?
[/ QUOTE ]
Quality was just referring to some kind of metric that would aggregate things like infant mortality rate, extent of coverage, etc. Obviously aggregating a variety of measures poses its own problems, but using only one dimension like infant mortality rate does not make sense either.
My words were a bit carefless RE cost. You shouldn't put cost into the equation if you are just interested in some absolute level of quality of health care. If you want to compare the efficacy of different ways of organizing health systems in different societies, however, then you need cost as a fundamental variable.
|