Since 80’s the introduction of New Public Management principles has promoted the use of performance measurement to drive a more efficient, effective and accountable public sector. The adoption of a sophisticated and comprehensive multidimensional performance measurement system, which looks...

The Italian National Health System (NHS), established in 1978, follows a model similar to Beveridge model developed by the British NHS (Beveridge 1942; Musgrove 2000). Like the British NHS, healthcare coverage for the Italian population is provided and financed by the government through taxes....

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: A comprehensive framework on coproduction activation, management and evaluation -- Chapter 3: Co-production activation -- Chapter 4: Coproduction Management -- Chapter 5: Coproduction evaluation -- Chapter 6: Conclusions.