Seminar
Ranking health care systems – messages for the NHS? - OHE 10th Annual Lecture and Dinner,
- Date:
- 02 Jul 03
- Speakers:
- Christopher Murray PhD MD
- Outline
- The World Health Organisation (WHO) is reworking the controversial analysis published in its 2000 World Health Report which put France as the top performing health care system in the world with the UK number 18 and the USA number 37. In this years OHE lecture...
- Full Description
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Chris Murray, who pioneered the 2000 exercise and is leading the new research on behalf of Director General Brundlandt, set out what the European data from latest World Health Survey on responsiveness (including waiting times) and health status tell us about the performance of the NHS:
- new international evidence on the relationship between expenditure and outcomes in cancer and on hospital performance in terms of risk adjusted health gain;
- why the WHO performance criteria are important and how they relate to the UK government’s objectives;
- lessons that can improve health care system performance in the UK and elsewhere;
- how the revised approach will deal with the methodological criticisms of the last report;
- the WHO view of the state as health care regulator rather than provider.
Chris Murray is one of the leading global health thinkers and policy makers. As Executive Director of the Evidence and Information for Policy Cluster at the WHO, he reports directly to WHO Director General Gro Brundtlandt. He has published breakthrough research in the Lancet, BMJ, Science, Health Economics and Journal of Health Economics, and, with Alan Lopez, has published the definitive work on the global burden of disease. Chris also serves an Adjunct Professor of International Health Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health. He qualified as an MD at Harvard Medical School and has a D.Phil in International Health Economics from the University of Oxford.