Health Economics and Efficiency in Healthcare
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2024) | Viewed by 2288
Special Issue Editor
Interests: applied econometrics; efficiency estimation; productivity; stochastic frontier analysis; industrial organization
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Dear Colleagues,
In order to achieve better health outcomes, it is essential to use the limited healthcare resources available effectively. Hence, measuring efficiency and understanding the interplay between efficiency and its determinants would be important. In the context of healthcare, efficiency refers to either obtaining the greatest benefit from interventions conditional on available resources or obtaining a health benefit with minimal use of resources.
We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions related to the measurement of healthcare efficiency. Specific topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Healthcare management and its impact on efficiency: e.g., gender, marital status, pay, and other features of top healthcare unit administrator and similar governance-related factors and their effect on efficiency;
- Understanding important determinants of healthcare efficiency;
- Healthcare unit cost/production efficiency: measuring hospital cost efficiency, technical efficiency, revenue efficiency, and profit efficiency;
- Comparison of public and private healthcare units in terms of efficiency;
- Spatial interactions of healthcare units and the effect of such interactions on the healthcare units’ efficiency;
- Productivity of healthcare units;
- Measures of success in healthcare.
Dr. Levent Kutlu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- data envelopment analysis
- cost efficiency
- healthcare efficiency
- healthcare management
- stochastic frontier analysis
- technical efficiency
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