Author(s): Luís, Ana Beatriz Mateus D’Avó
Date: 2015
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/15090
Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
Subject(s): Health systems efficiency; Health in the OECD; Impact of financial crisis; Life expectancy determinants
This work evaluates the efficiency position of the health system of each OECD country. It identifies whether, or not, health systems changed in terms of quality and performance after the financial crisis. The health systems performance was calculated by fixed-effects estimator and by stochastic frontier analysis. The results suggest that many of those countries that the crisis affected the most are more efficient than the OECD average. In addition, some of those countries even managed to reach the top decile in the efficiency ranking. Finally, we analyze the stochastic frontier efficiency scores together with other health indicators to evaluate the health systems’ overall adjustments derived from the crisis.
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