Incentives and performance in the health care system

改变对卫生保健提供者的财政激励将对他们的行为产生直接影响，进而影响患者的健康结果、护理质量和民众获得卫生保健的机会。这项研究将提供对激励效果的更丰富的理解，并将影响澳大利亚卫生保健提供者激励设计的政策。激励措施的改变将确保患者在最适当的环境中获得更适当、更高质量和更低成本的医疗保健，并由最适当的医疗保健提供者提供。这将对人口健康和福祉以及个人过健康和富有成效的生活的能力产生直接影响。

Changes in financial incentives for health care providers will have direct effects on their behaviour, which in turn influences patients' health outcomes, quality of care, and access to health care for the population. The research will provide a richer understanding of the effects of incentives, and will influence policy on the design of incentives for health care providers in Australia. Changes in incentives will ensure patients receive more appropriate, higher quality, and less costly health care, in the most appropriate settings, and delivered by the most appropriate health care providers. This will have direct effects on population health and well-being and the capacity of individuals to lead healthy and productive lives.