Journal article
Levers for addressing medical underuse and overuse: achieving high-value health care
Abstract
The preceding papers in this Series have outlined how underuse and overuse of health-care services occur within a complex system of health-care production, with a multiplicity of causes. Because poor care is ubiquitous and has considerable consequences for the health and wellbeing of billions of people around the world, remedying this problem is a morally and politically urgent task. Universal health coverage is a key step towards achieving the …
Authors
Elshaug AG; Rosenthal MB; Lavis JN; Brownlee S; Schmidt H; Nagpal S; Littlejohns P; Srivastava D; Tunis S; Saini V
Journal
The Lancet, Vol. 390, No. 10090, pp. 191–202
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
July 2017
DOI
10.1016/s0140-6736(16)32586-7
ISSN
0140-6736