Guy Dargent

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Medical doctor from the University of Louvain (1981), Master of Public health (1989) and Master of Business Administration (1991), certified specialist in health data management by the Belgian Ministry of Public Health in December 2003. Since 2006, working in the Consumer, health and Food Executive Agency (European Commission) in the Health unit

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University of Zagreb

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Uppsala University

Jana Javornik

University of East London

Armando Marques-Guedes

UNL - New University of Lisbon

Graham Martin

University of Leicester

Gwen Robbins Schug

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Gabriel Gutierrez-Alonso

University of Salamanca

John Sutton

Macquarie University

Eros Carvalho

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

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Swansea University

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Health systems performance indicators: methodological issues

The paper examines the methodological issues related to health systems performance. It reviews re... more The paper examines the methodological issues related to health systems performance. It reviews relevant concepts, provides examples on the measurement of health systems performance in various countries, identifies the methodo logical issues of the performance indicators and presents some policy implications. Main methodological challenges are related to the definition of indicator and the controllable variation in performance as well as the integration of in dicators in a composite indicator and the setting of benchmarks. Employment of performance indicators requires a careful consideration of different approaches with complimentary effects in order to assess whether health system achieves outlined objectives.

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Tackling frailty and functional decline: Background of the action group A3 of the European innovation partnership for active and healthy ageing

Maturitas, 2018

Ageing populations represent a challenge to the sustainability of current healthcare systems. The... more Ageing populations represent a challenge to the sustainability of current healthcare systems. The need to balance these demographic changes with gains in healthy life years and quality of life (QoL) constitutes an additional challenge. Aware of this, the European Commission (EC) launched the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIPonAHA) in 2012. The EIPonAHA is an interdisciplinary and cross-sector initiative involving more than 3000 partners with two specific objectives: to increase the healthy life expectancy of Europeans by two years by 2020, while increasing their QoL. The initiatives of the EIPonAHA have been organized according to six thematic action groups (AGs), with the A3 group targeting areas relating to the prevention of functional decline and frailty. In addition to the good practices of partners, there are several on-going collaborative works. The involvement of the EC includes support through an elaborated research programme in which the Cons...

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Development and assessment of criteria to select projects for funding in the EU health programme

The European Journal of Public Health, 2012

Background: Projects are the main financing mechanism within the EU community action programme fo... more Background: Projects are the main financing mechanism within the EU community action programme for public health. This article reports the process of establishing and validating evaluation criteria for projects submitted for funding within this programme, to ensure that projects selected for funding conform with quality standards. Methods: An evaluation checklist was developed, drawing on project management and health promotion literature, to Score 3 aspects of project quality: policy and contextual relevance (five criteria, scores 0-8), technical quality (five criteria, scored 0-6) and management quality (six criteria, scored 0-5). Teams of three people made consensus ratings with the checklist on each of 215 eligible applications submitted in response to Calls for Proposals in 2007 and 151 submitted in 2008. Construct validity, internal consistency and predictive validity were assessed on the grouped consensus ratings using psychometric test statistical methods. Results: Principal component analyses on both the 2007 and 2008 data gave a three component solution, which largely coincides with the dimensions of contextual relevance, technical quality and management quality. Reliability analyses show high Cronbach 's (>0.86) for each of the three scales. Discriminant analyses indicate that all three of the dimensions contributed to the decision to fund a project. Over the 2 years, innovation, content specification, EU added value and geographical coverage contributing most consistently to the success of an application. Conclusion: The study shows the successful development and validation of criteria to evaluate EU health project grant proposals.

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Human, Social and Economic costs due to non-fatal Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents.(An approach based on routinely collected data)

Archives of Public Health, Jan 1, 2003

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Development and validation of criteria to select projects for funding in the EU Health Programme

by Guy Dargent and S. Van Den Broucke

European Journal of …, Jan 1, 2011

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Falls prevention in the elderly

Louvain médical, Jan 1, 1998

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Health systems performance indicators: methodological issues

Presupuesto y Gasto Público, Jan 1, 2007

El documento examina las cuestiones metodológicas relacionadas con el funcionamiento de los siste... more El documento examina las cuestiones metodológicas relacionadas con el funcionamiento de los sistemas sanitarios. Se examinan los conceptos relevantes; se presentan ejemplos sobre la medición del desempeño de los sistemas de salud en varios países; se identifica las cuestiones metodológicas de los indicadores de desempeño y se presentan algunas implicaciones políticas. Los principales retos metodológicos están relacionados con la definición de indicadores y el control de su variabilidad, así como con la integración de los indicadores en un indicador compuesto y establecer puntos de referencia. El empleo de indicadores de desempeño requiere la consideración de diferentes enfoques con efectos complementarios a fin de evaluar si el sistema de salud logra objetivos establecidos.