World Health Report

Abstract

The World health report 2000 : health systems : improving performance. 1. World health 2. Health systems plans 3. Delivery of health care 4. Health services administration 5. Financing, Health 6. Health services accessibility 7. Social justice 8. Health care evaluation mechanisms I. Title: Health systems : improving performance ISBN 92 4 156198 X (NLM Classification: WA 540.1) Valuable input was received from an internal advisory group and a regional reference group, the members of which are listed in the Acknowledgements. Additional help and advice were gratefully received from regional directors, executive directors at WHO headquarters and senior policy advisers to the Director-General. The conceptual framework that underpins the report was formulated by Christopher Murray and Julio Frenk. The development of new analytical methods and summary indicators, new international data collection efforts and extensive empirical analysis that form the basis for the report was undertaken by over 50 individuals, most of them from the WHO Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy, organized in eleven working groups. These groups covered basic demography, cause of death, burden of The cover shows a photograph of a sculpture entitled "Ascending Horizon" by Rafael Barrios, in Caracas, Venezuela. The photograph by Mireille Vautier is reproduced with the kind permission of ANA Agence photographique de presse,