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Mortality Amenable to Health Care in 31 OECD Countries

2011; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1787/5kgj35f9f8s2-en

1815-2015

Valérie Paris, Marion Devaux, Michael De Looper,

Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management

This study assesses the potential of the concept of "mortality amenable to health care" as an indicator of outcome for health care systems. It presents estimates of the mortality amenable to health care in 31 OECD countries for the period 1997-2007. It measures the sensitivity of this indicator to the list of death causes considered to be "amenable to care" by comparing results obtained from two leading lists. It then presents the advantages of this indicator over indicators of general mortality, as well as its limitations.