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Cost-Effectiveness and Health Services Systems — A Systems Approach to the Assessment of Health Care

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The terms cost-effectiveness and systems-analysis are relatively new to the Western world of health services. Both concepts originated in military operations research, made their way successfully through big industry and its corporate planning, and from there on now slowly penetrate the health sector’s management and planning.

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  1. Ministry of Health, The Hague, The Netherlands

    Charles O. Pannenborg

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  1. Department of Public Health and Environmental Hygiene, Leidschendam, The Netherlands

    Charles O. Pannenborg  & Albert van der Werff  & 

  2. Health Management Consultants, 7 Highgate Road, 01778, Wayland, Massachusetts, USA

    Gary B. Hirsch

  3. Nuffield Centre for Health Services Studies, The University of Leeds, 71-75 Clarendon Road, LS 29 PL, Leeds, UK

    Keith Barnard

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Pannenborg, C.O. (1984). Cost-Effectiveness and Health Services Systems — A Systems Approach to the Assessment of Health Care. In: Pannenborg, C.O., van der Werff, A., Hirsch, G.B., Barnard, K. (eds) Reorienting Health Services. Nato Conference Series, vol 15. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2685-4_10

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