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Improving the Efficiency of Health Care Spending : Selected Evidence on Hospital Performance
Erlandsen, Espen - 2007
There are no ready-made data on hospital outputs and inputs which would allow comprehensive international comparisons … of hospital efficiency to be carried out. This paper, therefore, relies on selected evidence to compare hospital … standard hospital treatments; ii) overall efficiency levels in a set of paired countries; iii) within-country dispersion in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446148
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Health Care Systems : Efficiency and Institutions
Joumard, Isabelle - 2010
This paper presents a set of indicators to assess health care system performance. It also presents new comparative data on health care policies and institutions for OECD countries. This set of indicators allows the empirical characterisation of health care systems and the identification of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444843
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Public Expenditure Reform : The Health Care Sector in the United Kingdom
Koen, Vincent - 2000
Health services are largely tax-financed in the United Kingdom and account for 14 per cent of general government spending. This paper analyses how the National Health Service (NHS) has been dealing with the associated expenditure pressures in the pre-1990 set-up and during the “quasi-market”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446869
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How to Improve Israel's Health-care System
Hemmings, Philip - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
. Although the quality of care is generally good, in hospital care there is room to improve data and concern that overcrowding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276783
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Balancing Health Care Quality and Cost Containment: The Case of Norway
Bibbee, Alexandra; Padrini, Flavio - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
, and per capita spending on health is now one of the highest in the OECD. Centralisation of hospital ownership may have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045953
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Belgium: Enhancing the Cost Efficiency and Flexibility of the Health Sector to Adjust to Population Ageing
Sorbe, Stéphane - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
shift towards a more demand-driven system could be encouraged by phasing out over-prescriptive hospital regulations. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276825
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Public Expenditure Reform: The Health Care Sector in the United Kingdom
Koen, Vincent - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2000
Health services are largely tax-financed in the United Kingdom and account for 14 per cent of general government spending. This paper analyses how the National Health Service (NHS) has been dealing with the associated expenditure pressures in the pre-1990 set-up and during the “quasi-market”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045739
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The Reform of the Health Care System in Portugal
Guichard, Stéphanie - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004
An ambitious reform to increase efficiency of the Portuguese health care system was launched in 2002. In contrast to previous attempts of gradual reforms, which were never fully implemented, the strategy has been to create a big bang in the health sector, making changes essentially irreversible....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045807
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The US Health System: An Assessment and Prospective Directions for Reform
Docteur, Elizabeth; Suppanz, Hannes; Woo, Jaejoon - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2003
This paper assesses the performance of the United States health system in an international context and discusses potential directions for reform. The US health system is unique among OECD countries in its heavy reliance on the private sector for both financing and delivery of health care. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045891
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Improving the Efficiency of Health Care Spending: Selected Evidence on Hospital Performance
Erlandsen, Espen - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007
There are no ready-made data on hospital outputs and inputs which would allow comprehensive international comparisons … of hospital efficiency to be carried out. This paper, therefore, relies on selected evidence to compare hospital … standard hospital treatments; ii) overall efficiency levels in a set of paired countries; iii) within-country dispersion in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045946