FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Abstract -- Summary -- 1 Health Data and Health Policy -- 2 Medical Care Accounts and Health Accounts: Structure and Data -- 3 Allocating Medical Expenditures: A Treatment-of-Disease Organizing Framework -- 4 Measuring Prices and Quantities of Medical Care: Improving Medical Care Price Indexes -- 5 Defining and Measuring Population Health -- 6 Linking Population Health to the Array of Health Inputs -- Bibliography -- Appendix A: The Potential Role of Various Data Sources in a National Health Account -- Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff -- Committee on National Statistics.