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04/11/23 00:30 OECD Istanbul June 2007
Making Progress in Health and Health Care
how do we know we are making progress? need to distinguish two broad domains:
progress in population health progress in health care services
Michael Wolfson, Statistics Canada
Denise Lievesley, UK NHS and ISI
(please use “normal view” or “notes page” to see speaking text)
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World’s Two Most Widely Used “Health” Indicators
Life Expectancy ( + other indicators based on mortality rates, e.g. infant mortality) good as far as it goes; clearly fundamental but leaves out how healthy people are while alive
Health Care Spending as % of GDP very poor indicator is more spending better or worse? focuses on inputs to health care, rather than results
We can and should do better for our most basic measures of progress in health and health care
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How do we know we are making progress in population health?
currently, a plethora of indicators often a failure to distinguish “health” from
antecedents, e.g. risk factors like smoking, correlates, e.g. bio-medical parameters like blood pressure, and sequalae, e.g. social participation like work, mortality
simple idea: HALE = health-adjusted life expectancy builds on already very widely use measure, life expectancy progress ≡ “adding years to life” and/or “adding life to years”
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Basic Definitions LE = area under survival curve HALE = “weighted” area under survival curve
where “weights” are levels of individual health status, ranging between zero (dead) and one (fully healthy)
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UK LE and HALE (Simpler Method)
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Measuring Functional Health Status in a Population
examples: McMaster Health Utility Index, Euroqol EQ-5D, WHO World Health Survey
define a set of health domains develop a parsimonious set of survey questions
to elicit levels of functioning for each domain, and collect data for a representative sample Budapest Initiative
apply a systematic method for eliciting values for various health states for another, typically smaller, sample
estimate a “valuation function”
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Changes in Life Expectancy (LE) and Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE)
by Cause, Canada
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IHD
Lung cancer
Breast cancer
Stroke
COPD
Colorectal cancer
Diabetes
Melanoma
Osteoarthritis
Mental disorders
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Women
(Source: Manuel et al, ICES and Health Canada, NPHS)
HALELE
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Progress in Levels and in Differences – Health Inequality
old (statistical) adage: “beware of the mean” HALE is fundamental for measuring overall
progress in population health – analogous to “size of the pie” in income analysis
but HALE itself says nothing about “how the pie is divided” – about the distribution of health within a population
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The Concept of Health Inequality concept of health inequality is different income inequality is “univariate”
e.g. what share of income goes to the top 1%; how many individuals are living on less than $1 per day?
health inequality is “bivariate”, i.e. about correlations, especially systematic associations with socio-economic status e.g. how does health (HALE) vary from one region
in a country to another; how steep is the gradient – i.e. how much does
health status improve as we move up the social ladder within a country
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Life Expectancy (LE) and Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE), Canada 2001
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HALE LE
male female male female
at birth at age 65 males femalesat birth at birth
income terciles (thirds)
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An Almost Familiar World Map
www.worldmapper.org; cartogram algorithm: Mark Newman
other risk factors – income, chronic stress (n.b. age, sex and comorbidity included)
health care is driven by opinions clinical judgment is not well-informed by rigorous
and systematic evaluation health system managers have no empirical bases
for judging the effectiveness of their activities
aggregate SNA style measures of “productivity” miss the real issues
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Concluding Comments need to measure both progress in population
health and in health care for population health: HALE is fundamental for health care: outcomes are fundamental for both: a common metric for measuring individual
health status is essential – propose Budapest Initiative short form questions (along with items covering many other facets of health)
using basic health information principles incentive compatibility – providers of crucial health
information should have a stake… empowerment – information should enable both general
public and providers (as well as health system managers) to improve outcomes / quality