In the rural health-care organization of China, township hospitals ensure the delivery of basic medical services … questioned, mainly with the implementation since 2003 of the reform of health insurance in rural areas. From a database of 24 …

The inefficiency of health care provision presents a major health policy concern in Germany. In order to address the … issue of efficiency comprehensively - i.e. at the level of the entire system of health care provision rather than individual … analyses based on regional data. This holds, in particular, for the role of the states in the efficiency of health production …

This work follows the series of studies conducted in Ipea, in order to compare the efficiency of the Brazilian health … system to health systems of other countries. We evaluate the efficiency of expenditure in health care provision by comparing … the health system of Brazil, Latina America, Caribbean Countries and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and …

The inefficiency of health care provision presents a major health policy concern in Germany. In order to address the … issue of efficiency comprehensively – i.e. at the level of the entire system of health care provision rather than individual … on regional data.This holds, in particular, for the role of the states in the efficiency of health production …

This paper aims to shed light on the contribution of health care and other determinants to the health status of the … population and to provide evidence on whether or not health care resources are producing similar value for money across OECD … countries. First, it discusses the pros and cons of various indicators of the health status, concluding that mortality and …

Greek health outcomes compare favourably with the OECD average. However, the health care system is seen as not working … well by the population. One source of dissatisfaction is the high proportion of private household spending on health …, including informal payments, while public health spending relative to GDP is one of the lowest in the OECD. This situation leads …

mortality-based health status indicator, namely age-at-death (AAD), and its associated health inequality indicators that measure … unavoidable mortality risks. This has facilitated the development of a new indicator of health status, namely the Realization of … individual countries. This allows us to construct a new indicator of health status – Realization of Conditional Potential Life …

This work follows the series of studies conducted in Ipea, in order to compare the efficiency of the Brazilian health … system to health systems of other countries. We evaluate the efficiency of expenditure in health care provision by comparing … the health system of Brazil, Latina America, Caribbean Countries and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and …