Health and efficiency concepts -- Efficiency measurement techniques -- Measuring efficiency in health services -- Application of efficiency measurement in health services -- Advanced applications and recent developments -- Future directions

After reviewing over 300 published papers on frontier efficiency measurement, the techniques used are mainly non-parametric data envelopment analysis based, but there is increasing use of parametric techniques, such as stochastic frontier analysis. Applications both to hospitals and wider health...

Self-assessed measures of health using Likert-type scales are widely used to assess the health and well-being of populations, and are a feature of household surveys throughout the world. However, the self-reported and subjective nature of these measures means that different people will...