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Efficiency measurement in health and health care / Bruce Hollingsworth and Stuart J. Peacock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hollingsworth, Bruce.
- Series:
- Routledge international studies in health economics ; 6.
- Routledge international studies in health economics ; 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--Cost effectiveness--Measurement.
- Medical care.
- Health facilities--Cost effectiveness--Measurement.
- Health facilities.
- Health facilities--Labor productivity--Measurement.
- Organizational effectiveness--Measurement.
- Organizational effectiveness.
- Economics, Medical.
- Data Interpretation, Statistical.
- Efficiency, Organizational--economics.
- Health Resources--economics.
- Health Services--economics.
- Models, Economic.
- Labor productivity.
- Measurement.
- Health facilities--Cost effectiveness.
- Medical care--Cost effectiveness.
- Medical Subjects:
- Economics, Medical.
- Data Interpretation, Statistical.
- Efficiency, Organizational--economics.
- Health Resources--economics.
- Health Services--economics.
- Models, Economic.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 157 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
- Summary:
- In recent decades, healthcare has become an ever more&important subject as&the ageing population&in&the developed world takes centre stage, and the perceived lack of efficiency and money-wasting present in many healthcare systems comes under the microscope.&This key text&skilfully leads the reader through the logical links between the economic theory underpinning efficiency measurement and the methods used in its analysis. In examining the current state of efficiency measurement and pointing a well thought out way forward, &this book will appeal to a wide audience of academics, practitioners and students involved in health economics and public health studies.
- Contents:
- Health and efficiency concepts
- Efficiency measurement techniques
- Measuring efficiency in health services
- Application of efficiency measurement in health services
- Advanced applications and recent developments
- Future directions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [140]-154) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415271371
- 9780415271370
- 0203486560
- 9780203486566
- OCLC:
- 166278665
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