Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Preface
Contents
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
Key Ingredient for Strategy: What Goals Are to Be Achieved?
Toward a Socioeconomic Strategic Framework for 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”
Backcasting
Assessing Information to Establish Initial Questions
What Are the Strategic Questions for Israel?
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
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
Strategic Leverage Points for Aging Strategies in Israel
Process for Strategy
Embedding Strategy in Israel’s Socioeconomic Policy
A. Candidate Indicators Within the Balanced Scorecard
B. Selected Output from the November 2011 Backcasting Workshop
C. Candidate Policy Actions for Population Aging
Bibliography