Evaluation of Effectiveness, Quality and Inequalities in Health, Medical and Long-Term Care - Achievements and Challenges -
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: The viewpoint of cost effectiveness analysis is essential for efficiently allocating limited social security resources. To do this, effectiveness must be measured together with costs. However, evaluation studies for effectiveness and quality of health, medical and long-term care in Japan have lagged behind those in other well developed countries. We will hereby present studies that we have conducted regarding health (preventive care), rehabilitation medicine, long-term care (quality of care at special nursing homes for elderly people) and end-of-life care. In addition, we will discuss achievements in and potentials for gvisualization h in the effectiveness and quality of health, medical and long-term care, and present future challenges. In each study, some programs led to significant effects, while others did not. Simply suppressing costs uniformly without distinguishing between effective and ineffective programs will also inhibit activities that are effective. To encourage citizens to accept the cost burden associated with expansion of social security costs, it is critical to construct frameworks for gvisualization h that lead to improved care quality and equity by utilizing increased health and long-term care costs while eliminating waste. This requires the construction of largescale databases in each field, the accumulation of health services research and the development of a management system encompassing those findings.
Author: Katsunori Kondo
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2287795729