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Technical efficiency in the use of health care resources: a comparison of OECD countries.
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The USA may learn from countries more economical in their allocation of healthcare resources that more is not necessarily better, and finds that the USA can substantially reduce inputs while maintaining the current level of life expectancy.About:
This article is published in Health Policy.The article was published on 2004-07-01. It has received 211 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health care & Life expectancy.read more
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On the european union
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the patterns and effects of departmental oversight across 28 ministries in Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia in relation to transposition planning, legal review and monitoring of deadlines.
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Health at a Glance: Europe 2010
TL;DR: This special edition of Health at a Glance focuses on health issues across the 27 European Union member states, three European Free Trade Association countries (Iceland, Norway and Switzerland) and Turkey, giving readers a better understanding of the factors that affect the health of populations and the performance of health systems in these countries.
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The measurement of efficiency and productivity of health care delivery
TL;DR: Cautious conclusions are that public provision may be potentially more efficient than private, in certain settings, and some criteria for assessing the use and usefulness of efficiency studies are established, to help both researchers and those assessing whether or not to act upon published results.
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Health Care Quality Indicators Project: Initial Indicators Report
TL;DR: This paper represents an attempt to set out a conceptual framework for the OECD’s Health Care Quality Indicator (HCQI) Project and issues are tackled: what concepts, or dimensions, of quality of health care should be measured and how, in principle, should they be measured.
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Health report
TL;DR: This upsurge in the rare, programming-effectiveness syndrome is transitory and most likely was caused by subtle environmental changes such as corporate cost reduction campaigns impacting a monotonically decreasing programmer employment opportunity curve.
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Some Models for Estimating Technical and Scale Inefficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis
TL;DR: The CCR ratio form introduced by Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes, as part of their Data Envelopment Analysis approach, comprehends both technical and scale inefficiencies via the optimal value of the ratio form, as obtained directly from the data without requiring a priori specification of weights and/or explicit delineation of assumed functional forms of relations between inputs and outputs as mentioned in this paper.
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The burden of oral disease: challenges to improving oral health in the 21st century.
TL;DR: The incidence of dental caries will increase in the near future in many developing countries of Africa, as a result of growing consumption of sugars and inadequate exposure to fluorides, and the risk of periodontal disease and tooth loss may increase.
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Efficiency Analysis for Exogenously Fixed Inputs and Outputs
Rajiv D. Banker,Richard C. Morey +1 more
TL;DR: This work evaluates the relative technical and scale efficiencies of decision making units DMUs when some of the inputs or outputs are exogenously fixed and beyond the discretionary control of DMU managers through mathematical programming formulations.