The paper estimates cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006-2010. We employ the … performance in the group of small and medium hospitals, while not-for-pro t ownership is favorable to efficiency for big hospitals … conditional order-m approach which is a nonparametric method for efficiency computation accounting for environmental variables …

spending efficiency in developing Asia. Using data envelopment analysis, we find that East Asia has the highest average output …- and input-oriented technical efficiency scores among the subregions. Universal health coverage service coverage index and … population density have the strongest effect on health spending efficiency. In addition, using the novel framework of macro …

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 …

applied in incentive regulation practice, where the assessment of efficiency plays a major role in regulation design and … and SFA efficiency scores, have certain practical merits and might offer an useful alternative to strict reliance on a …, but can also improve the precision of efficiency estimation. Based on our results, we give recommendations for the …

applied in incentive regulation practice, where the assessment of efficiency plays a major role in regulation design and … and SFA efficiency scores, have certain practical merits and might offer an useful alternative to strict reliance on a …, but can also improve the precision of efficiency estimation. Based on our results, we give recommendations for the …