Title:
Accounting for Health
Paper Type:
Research Papers
Date:
January 2011
Summary:
The research aimed to identify why some countries produce better health outcomes than others at the same level of income. The objectives of the research were:

• to assess the extent to which health expenditure and other factors modify the relationship between income and health outcomes;

• to identify the common characteristics of well-performing countries in respect of health outcomes, at different levels of socio-economic development;

• to explore the extent to which the characteristics of well-performing countries might be replicated.