Estimating the efficiency of the system of healthcare financing in achieving better health       
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Prof. Dr. Osman Zihni ZAİM Bilkent Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı Applied Economics
Dergi ISSN 0003-6846 Wos Dergi Scopus Dergi
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SSCI
Dergi Grubu Q3
Makale Dili Türkçe
Basım Tarihi 01-2006
Cilt No 38
Sayı 13
Sayfalar 1477 / 1488
DOI Numarası 10.1080/00036840500424798
Özet
This paper contributes to the effort to model and measure how the method of financing of health expenditure affects the efficiency with which better health can be achieved. The focus is on the health system efficiency at the country level, which provides an alternative to the work done in the WHO in this regard. The approach uses frontier techniques as in the WHO studies; however the paper appeals to the economic index number theory of quantity and productivity indexes, which have well-established axiomatic properties, and provides a means for aggregating multiple health output proxies without having to attach arbitrary weights. This allows the proposal of a specification that embeds health sector performance in a broader index of economic inputs and outputs and allows for comparisons across countries and time.
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