The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook,
providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory …

The research presented here applies the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to a sample of
public (government-owned) and not-for-profit hospitals operating in Michigan in 1982. The …

Examines the application of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to hospital-related technical
efficiency evaluations. Critical review of literature; Approaches used in previous studies; …

Using a national data base of urban hospitals, the effect of ownership (government,
nonprofit, and for-profit) on the technical efficiency of hospitals was examined. Efficiency …

The cost, technical, allocative and scale efficiencies of a sample of rural US hospitals are
calculated via linear programming models. Tobit analysis is used to assess possible …

Drawing on an eclectic array of research and evaluative studies culled from a mix of
sources, this volume analyzes Brazilian hospital performance along several policy …

This book provides a concise synthesis of leading edge research in the theory and practise
of efficiency measurement in health and health care. Whilst much of the literature in this area …

In recent years, nursing home care expenditures have approached 1% of GNP. Their growth
is a major contributor to the escalating costs of health care. In this article, we analyze a …

The evaluation of public and nonprofit programs is made difficult by the lack of an accurate
performance gauge. Maximum profits cannot apply in these cases, since most nonprofit and …

The performance of primary care should ultimately be judged on its effect on the health
outcome of individual patients. However, for the foreseeable future, it is inconceivable that …