This presentation was made by Ivor Beazley, OECD Secretariat, at the 6th meeting of the joint OECD DELSA-GOV network on fiscal sustainability of health systems held in Paris, on 18-19 September 2017
4. Key measurement challenges
• What the right unit of output for
measuring productivity (economy wide,
institutional level, disease/treatment,
individual?)
• How to value outputs - absent market
comparators – or collective goods (e.g
public health)
• How to adjust for differences in the quality
of outputs