Imperial College Business School and Institute for Global Health, London, UK.
Prev Chronic Dis. 2010 Sep;7(5):A102. Epub 2010 Aug 15.
Health targets have become a widely used instrument to promote population health. We describe the experience in England, where the use of targets has reached the most advanced stage of development, and other European countries. The experience demonstrates that targets may change the behavior of a health system, probably to a larger extent than many other policy instruments, if incentives are aligned correctly and if measures to deal with unintended effects are put in place.
健康目标已成为促进人群健康的一种广泛应用的手段。我们描述了英国的经验,在英国,目标的使用已经达到了最先进的发展阶段,同时也描述了其他欧洲国家的经验。这些经验表明,如果激励措施得到正确调整,并且采取措施应对意外后果,那么目标可能会比许多其他政策手段更大程度地改变卫生系统的行为。