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 …

competition and to improve efficiency among the different health insurances. The fund is fl anked by a health-based risk … basis for competition among statutory health care funds, securing quality and efficiency in health care provision. To cover … greater efficiency thus far, and they offer proposals on how to achieve improved performance. …

This paper investigates the regional hospital efficiency in China during the 2002–2008 period, especially for how the … health insurance reform of New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS) impacts on efficiency. Adopting the non … industry, empirical estimates indicate that hospital efficiency is moderate that increased slightly from 0.6777 to 0 …

The health sector reform programme which began in Vietnam in 1989 in order to improve the efficiency of the health … study aims to examine the relative efficiency of hospitals during the health reform process and assess - by looking at the … relative efficiency of hospitals - the effects of the regulatory changes. The study employs the DEA two-stage approach …

increased efficiency. …