Author(s): Neves, Ana Catarina Arranhado
Date: 2011
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/10097
Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
Subject(s): Stochastic frontier analysis; Grades of membership; Primary health care
Author(s): Neves, Ana Catarina Arranhado
Date: 2011
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/10097
Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
Subject(s): Stochastic frontier analysis; Grades of membership; Primary health care
A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics
This work aims at assessing the Portuguese family health units, whose creation was part of the primary health care reform that began in 2005, in terms of their performance. Family health units are ranked with regard to cost efficiency – stochastic frontier analysis is the econometric technique followed – and the establishment of extreme profiles they compare to is determined through the grades of membership approach. The definition of specific goals for each family health unit to achieve in terms of performance are delivered as the final output of this work, which should allow for improvement of efficiency levels.