The strategic perspective and long-term socioeconomic strategies for Israel : key methods with an application to aging / / Steven W. Popper [and three others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910220087603321
• Autore: Popper Steven W. <1953->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Santa Monica, California : , : RAND Corporation, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-8330-9070-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (187 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.095694
• Soggetti: Aging - Government policy - Israel; Strategic planning - Israel; Electronic books.; Israel Social policy; Israel Economic policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction; CHAPTER TWO: The Strategic Perspective and Socioeconomic Policy; Strategic Perspective and Its Link to Strategy; Israel and the Strategic Perspective; Potential Value Added by Enhanced Capacity for Strategic Assessment; CHAPTER THREE: Visions, Goals, and Strategic Frameworks; Key Ingredient for Strategy: What Goals Are to Be Achieved?; Toward a Socioeconomic Strategic Framework for Israel; CHAPTER FOUR: Measurement and Indicators of Socioeconomic Outcomes in IsraelMetrics, Measures, and Indicators; Indicators: Tools for Strategic Assessment and Strategy Development; Constructing a System of Socioeconomic Measures; CHAPTER FIVE: Applying a Strategic Perspective; Steps in Applying a Strategic Perspective; Population Aging in Israel: An Inevitable "Surprise"; CHAPTER SIX: Scan and List Initial Questions; Backcasting; Assessing Information to Establish Initial Questions; What Are the Strategic Questions for Israel?; CHAPTER SEVEN: Information-Gathering and Mapping the System: ; Israeli and International Experience with Population AgingDemographic Dynamics in Israel; Interviews and Existing Literature on Aging Issues in Israel; International Experience with Population Aging; Understanding the System: Mapping onto Socioeconomic Outcome Indicators; CHAPTER EIGHT: Dynamic Analysis: Focus on Health Care Cost and Dependency; Changes in Health Care Costs; Changes in GDP; CHAPTER NINE: Scenario Building: First Simple Steps; "In the Absence of Action, What Could Go Wrong?"; Robustness Assessment; CHAPTER TEN Moving Toward Strategic Planning and ImplementationStrategic Leverage Points for Aging Strategies in Israel; Process for Strategy; Embedding Strategy in Israel's Socioeconomic Policy; APPENDIXES; A. Candidate Indicators Within the Balanced Scorecard; B. Selected Output from the November 2011 Backcasting Workshop; C. Candidate Policy Actions for Population Aging; Bibliography