Evaluating Health Services' Effectiveness

Abstract

The subject of health services evaluation is curiously lacking a book near to being described as a standard textbook. The inter- ested reader, at all levels, must refer to a range of discipline based texts. The gap in the market is there, but has it been adequately met by Leger and colleagues? The authors are clearly committed to evaluation and its growing importance. In overall tone the authors have a sensible and pragmatic view of practical health services evaluation. However, as an introduction to the subject this book is unlikely to replace existing disciplinary texts.