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Are Hospitals Seasonally Inefficient? Evidence from Washington State Hospitals

Friesner, Daniel L.; McPherson, Matthew Q.; Rosenman, Robert - 2006

. Using a quarterly panel of general, acute-care hospitals from Washington State, we find that hospital efficiency does vary …Efficiency measurement has been one of the most extensively explored areas of health services research over the past … two decades. Despite this attention, few studies have examined whether a providers efficiency varies on a monthly …

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Obesity and Diabetes, the Built Environment, and the ‘Local’ Food Economy

Matthew, Salois - 2010

Obesity and diabetes are increasingly attributed to environmental factors, however, little attention has been paid to influence of the 'local' food economy. This paper examines the association of measures relating to the built environment and the ‘local’ food economy with county-level...

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Obesity and Diabetes, the Built Environment, and the ‘Local’ Food Economy

Salois, Matthew - 2010

Obesity and diabetes are increasingly attributed to environmental factors, however, little attention has been paid to the influence of the 'local' food economy. This paper examines the association of measures relating to the built environment and ‘local’ agriculture with U.S. county-level...

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Integrating Mental Health in Welfare Evaluation: An Empirical Application

Das, Sanghamitra; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Ray, Tridip - 2007

This paper presents simple measures of individual and family mental health indices based on axiomatic foundations and integrates mental health into a neoclassical model that allows for proper substitution possibilities in the family preferences and quantifies its significance in family utility....

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Negative Reality of the HIV Positives: Evaluating Welfare Loss in a Low Prevalence Country

Das, Sanghamitra; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Ray, Tridip - 2008

Using primary household data from India we estimate family utility function parameters that measure the relative importance of consumption, schooling of children and health (both physical and mental) and find that mental health is far more important than consumption or children’s schooling in...

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Age- and Gender-Specific Excess Mortality during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Hungary in 2020

Tóth, Csaba G. - 2021

The excess mortality indicator is able to capture how an epidemic affects a country’s mortality processes, taking into account direct and indirect, as well as possible effects in different directions. From the point of view of mortality processes in Hungary, the main feature of the first...

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Technical efficiency in primary health care: does quality matter?

Murillo-Zamorano, Luis R.; Petraglia, C. - 2008

in empirical research on efficiency in primary health care. We exploit information retrieved from a newly constructed … lead to misleading results. Our main finding is that adjusting output for quality influences efficiency analysis in three … technical efficiency in the sector is lower, while its dispersion among PCCs is significantly higher. And third, the efficiency …

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Coefficient of Structural Concordance and an Example of its Application: Labour Productivity and Wages in Slovenia

Verbic, Miroslav; Kuzmin, Franc - 2008

The article presents the underlying principles, derivation and properties of a simple descriptive measure of concordance between two analogous rank structures that we call the coefficient of structural concordance. It is based upon the idea of Kendall’s coefficient of concordance, which we...

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A note on the choice of Malmquist productivity index and Malmquist total factor productivity index

Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - 2006

This paper by analyzing the two popular methodologies of productivity measurement provides an example that illustrates the differences when adopting the two methodologies. Furthermore, under the restriction of constant returns to scale raises some methodological issues regarding the theory of...

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The first 100 days of COVID-19 coronavirus – How efficient did country health systems perform to flatten the curve in the first wave?

Breitenbach, Marthinus C; Ngobeni, Victor; Ayte, Goodness - 2020

most infected countries during the first 100 days since the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus for the efficiency in …, with efficiency between 50 and 60 per cent - more inefficient than Italy, France and Belgium, who were some of those …

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