Health Care Expenditure in the OECD Countries: Efficiency and Regulation
SSRN Electronic JournalPublished 1 January 2011Open access
Pablo Hernández de Cos, Enrique Moral‐Benito
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Evidence of significant differences in the cross-country level of efficiency of health care expenditure is provided, meaning that potential cost savings for the countries considered least efficient might be very high.
Abstract
La contención del gasto sanitario es uno de los retos más importante a los que se enfrentan las políticas públicas de los países desarrollados. En este trabajo se muestra evidencia de que existen diferencias significativas en el nivel de eficiencia del gasto sanitario entre países, de forma que los ahorros potenciales de coste para los considerados menos eficientes podrían ser elevados. Además, se encuentra una relación significativa entre distintas políticas e instituciones sanitarias en los países de la OCDE y los niveles de eficiencia de los sistemas sanitarios. Los resultados son, sin embargo, sensibles a la metodología de estimación de la eficiencia utilizada
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Health ProfessionsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
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