✦ LIBER ✦

The productivity of health care

✍ Scribed by Karen Bloor; Alan Maynard

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 72 KB
Volume: 15
Category: Article
ISSN: 1057-9230
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1183

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

The productivity of health care and heal

The productivity of health care and health production functions

✍ Çağatay Koç 📂 Article 📅 2004 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 137 KB

## Abstract This paper derives a necessary and sufficient condition under which increased health care productivity must lead to decreased (increased) demand for health care as long as the demand for health care is inelastic (elastic). It is shown that this condition identifies a class of health pro

The Impact of Health Care Policy Initiat

The Impact of Health Care Policy Initiatives on Productivity

✍ Magnus Tambour 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 285 KB 👁 3 views

This paper analyses productivity growth in health care delivery in Sweden and the impact of health care policy initiatives on productivity. In particular we consider the maximum waiting time guarantee introduced in Sweden 1992. The intention of the maximum waiting time guarantee was to shorten the w

The measurement of efficiency and produc

The measurement of efficiency and productivity of health care delivery

✍ Bruce Hollingsworth 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 198 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract The measurement of efficiency and productivity of health service delivery has become a small industry. This is a review of 317 published papers on frontier efficiency measurement. The techniques used are mainly based on non‐parametric data envelopment analysis, but there is increasing u

The productivity of mental health care:

The productivity of mental health care: an instrumental variable approach

✍ Mingshan Lu 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 111 KB 👁 3 views

Background: Like many other medical technologies and treatments, there is a lack of reliable evidence on treatment effectiveness of mental health care. Increasingly, data from non-experimental settings are being used to study the effect of treatment. However, as in a number of studies using non-expe

Health-care product advertising: The inf

Health-care product advertising: The influences of message framing and perceived product characteristics

✍ Chun-Tuan Chang 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 267 KB

## Abstract Message framing readily lends itself to marketing communication and advertising persuasion strategies. However, past research yields contradictory and inconsistent predictions as to whether positive or negative frames are more persuasive. This study examines the most appropriate message

Estimating production costs in the econo

Estimating production costs in the economic evaluation of health-care programs

✍ Carmen Herrero; Juan D. Moreno-Ternero 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 160 KB 👁 3 views

## Abstract We propose a method for calculating the production costs of an intervention in a manner that accounts for differences in productive ‘effort.’ This method could be used within a cost‐effectiveness analysis framework in the evaluation of new medical technologies, pharmaceuticals, treatmen