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 … efficiency differentials. We address this issue by specifying a spatial autoregressive model to explain efficiency scores for …

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 … subject to spatial dependence, rendering any analysis biased that aims at identifying the determinants of efficiency …

Improved land-use efficiency in agricultural production is crucial to meet increasing demand for agricultural … temporal dimensions of technical efficiency and land-use efficiency within Chinese crop production. During this period, China … results of this analysis, land-use efficiency increased slightly from 0.47 to 0.56 in most regions of China during that period …

technology available. The results indicate that regional deprivation plays a key role for the efficiency of health care provision …

Very little is known about the productive efficiency of the large scale contracting-out mechanism that delivers basic … healthcare services in Afghanistan. This study analyses the relative efficiency of basic package of health services (BPHS …) facilities and examines the factors associated with the efficiency of health facilities (HFs) in Afghanistan. Data envelopment …

econometric models are analyzed using data from the 401 counties in Germany. Our results show that, for example, current high …

We compute DEA efficiency scores and Malmquist indexes for a panel data set comprising 68 Portuguese public hospitals … are significant fluctuations among NHS hospitals in terms of individual efficiency scores from one year to the other …