Year: 1978
Type: article
Abstract: versial questions, and implement change.Rather, Mott believes, HSA BRIEFINGS boards will tend to smooth over conflict and thus will have limited impact.Bruce Vladic, Columbia University, stressed the need to know con- sumer preferences.Will consumers accept extra costs in order to have more available services?He urged that the payment and regulation systems work together because national health insurance and HSAs will help make national health insurance possible, and a uniform benefit package and set of policies would make planning more realizable.Common themes from these sessions were that cost containment is being pursued, though unsuccessfully, at the expense of health promotion and protection, and that the HSA task is extremely complex, requiring greater knowledge about the health care system and the potential impacts of change before success can be anticipated.-Joel B. Cowen Comprehensive Health Planning of Northwest Illinois, Inc. Health Status and Health ProgramsHealth index research reported at the 1977 APHA meeting focused primarily on the practical problems of clinical assessment, program planning, and the resource-allocation decisions of families and govern- ment.With a couple of exceptions, much less attention than usual was devoted to such methodological issues as preference assessment and aggregation, the validity and reliability of surveys, epidemiological inference, and health status optimization strategies.It may well be that progress on these matters has reached a temporary plateau.But it is certainly true that clinicians, planners, and other social scientists, interested in health behavior though not necessarily in index con- struction, are pressing ahead with their own analyses using whatever health indicators are available-even if a sizable set of theoretical issues remains under debate.
Source: PubMed Central
Author: Joseph Lipscomb
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W362764920