ABSTRACT
Health system reform involves the changing of health system features with the intention of improving health system outcomes. Chapters 19 to 24, and earlier chapters, have suggested how health systems features can vary, and how outcomes might respond to that variation. The distinctive perspective of economics on the relationship between health system features and outcomes is that it is driven by an understanding of how health system features create incentives, and how actors within the health system respond to those incentives in ways that affect outcomes.
