Government Spending on Health Care and Education in Croatia : Efficiency and Reform Options / Victoria Gunnarsson, Etibar Jafarov.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Gunnarsson, Victoria.

Contributor:

Jafarov, Etibar.

Series:

IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/136

IMF working paper ; WP/08/136

IMF Working Papers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care--Croatia--Finance.

Medical care.

Education--Croatia--Finance.

Education.

Croatia--Appropriations and expenditures.

Croatia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (36 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This paper assesses the relative efficiency of government spending on health care and education in Croatia by using the so-called Data Envelopment Analysis. The analysis finds evidence of significant inefficiencies in Croatia's spending on health care and education, related to inadequate cost recovery, weaknesses in the financing mechanisms and institutional arrangements, weak competition in the provision of these services, and weaknesses in targeting public subsidies on health care and education. These inefficiencies suggest that government spending on health and education could be reduced without undue sacrifices in the quality of these services. The paper identifies ways to do that.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

I. Introduction

II. International Comparisons of Spending on Health Care and Education and Performance .

III. The Relative Efficiency of Government Spending on Health Care and Education

IV. Concluding Remarks

Box 1. Performance Indicators

Tables

1. Health Expenditure and Outcomes

2. Selected Real Health Resources

3. Education Expenditure, Output, and Outcomes

4. Relative Efficiency of Croatia and the EU-10 in Health

5. Ratio of Percentile Rank of Efficiency Scores in Health to the Average of Percentile Ranks for OECD Countries

6. Correlations of Relative Efficiency in Health with Associated Factors

7. Standardized Death Rates, All Ages, 2005

8. Relative Efficiency of Croatia and the EU-10 in Education

9. Ratio of Percentile Rank of Efficiency Scores in Education to the Percentile Rank of the Average Efficiency Score of the OECD

10. Correlations of Relative Efficiency in Education with Associated Factors

11. A Menu of Reform Measures to Increase Efficiency of Government Spending on Health Care and Education in Croatia

Figures

1. Share of Private Funding in Total Health Care Spending

2. Efficiency Frontiers for Selected Health Outcome Indicators

References

Appendix Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

Appendix Figures

A.1. Illustrative Example of Applying DEA

A.2. The Efficiency Relationship Between Health Expenditures, Resources, and Outcome.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF front page (ebrary, viewed February 26, 2014).

ISBN:

9786612840883

9781462347728

146234772X

9781451990317

1451990316

9781451869958

1451869959

9781282840881

1282840886

OCLC:

252869158