TY  - BOOK
AU  - Popper,Steven W.
AU  - Shatz,Howard J.
AU  - Abramzon,Shmuel
AU  - Berrebi,Claude
AU  - Efron,Shira
TI  - The Strategic Perspective and Long-Term Socioeconomic Strategies for Israel: Key Methods with an Application to Aging
SN  - 9780833090706
AV  - HN660 
U1  - 306.095694 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Santa Monica
PB  - RAND Corporation, The
KW  - Strategic planning - Israel
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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 Israel -- Metrics, 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 Aging -- Demographic 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 Implementation -- Strategic 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
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