Accounting for health and health care [electronic resource] : approaches to measuring the sources and costs of their improvement / Panel to Advance a Research Program on the Design of National Health Accounts, Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Includes bibliographical references.

Health data and health policy -- Medical care accounts and health accounts : structure and data -- Allocating medical expenditures : a treatment-of-disease organizing framework -- Measuring prices and quantities of medical care : improving medical care price indexes -- Defining and measuring population health -- Linking population health to the array of health inputs.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.