The Comprehensive Evaluation of Health Care System Based on Entropy Model

Author

Zhang, Xingyong ; Yang, Guang ; Wang, Xiaolong ; Zhang, Baohua

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math., China Univ. of Min. & Technol., Xuzhou, China

Volume

3

fYear

2009

fDate

21-22 May 2009

Firstpage

232

Lastpage

235

Abstract

Comprehensive evaluation on health care system of ten countries is discussed in this paper. In order to comprehensively assess and evaluate the health care system in an objective manner, five first-tier indicators and nineteen second-tier indicators are set up as evaluation criteria in the first place. Then entropy modeling and Matlab software are applied to compute the values for first-tier indicators and the evaluation scores for the ten countriespsila health care systems. Three essential indicators to evaluate health care system are selected by Cluster Analysis and SPSS software, and yield same evaluation ranks as the entropy model of five first-tier indicators.

Keywords

entropy; health care; mathematics computing; medical computing; pattern clustering; statistical analysis; Matlab software; SPSS software; cluster analysis; comprehensive health care system evaluation; entropy model; first-tier indicator; second-tier indicator; Economic indicators; Elasticity; Electrical engineering; Entropy; Hospitals; Mathematical model; Medical services; National security; Performance analysis; Public healthcare; Health care system; comprehensive evaluation.; entropy model;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Computing Science, 2009. ICIC '09. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Manchester

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3634-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIC.2009.264

Filename

5168847