The Impact of Technical Change on Healthcare Production and Efficiency

Can BEKAROGLU; Dennis HEFFLEY

Makale detayları

The Impact of Technical Change on Healthcare Production and Efficiency

Yazarlar:

Can BEKAROGLU | Dennis HEFFLEY

Yayıncı:

Hacettepe University

Dergi:

Hacettepe Sağlık İdaresi Dergisi 2018 Vol.21 Issue 4, pp.641-653

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2018

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000454034

Sıklık:

Üç Aylık

eISSN:

2148-9041

Özet:

 

This article measures the technical efficiency of healthcare production and estimates the impact of technical change on healthcare across OECD countries between 2000 and 2011, based on a 34 country panel data set, extending the study by Fare et al. (1997). The study adopted a DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) based output-oriented efficiency measure to obtain the productive efficiency of each country for all given years, and used the Malmquist Index to determine the productivity growth and decompose the technical change from efficiency changes over the years. It is found that the production frontier shifted up around 0.8% annually between 2000 and 2011, with a cumulative 8.5% technical and 7.2% productivity increase over the period. Technological progress seems to be stable over time, while most of the fluctuations in productivity growth come from changes in efficiency due to utilization of new technologies.

Makale detayları

The Impact of Technical Change on Healthcare Production and Efficiency

Yazarlar: Can BEKAROGLU | Dennis HEFFLEY

Yayıncı: Hacettepe University

Dergi: Hacettepe Sağlık İdaresi Dergisi 2018 Vol.21 Issue 4, pp.641-653

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 12/2018

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000454034

Sıklık: Üç Aylık

eISSN: 2148-9041

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Can BEKAROGLU | Dennis HEFFLEY

Yayıncı:

Hacettepe University

Dergi:

Hacettepe Sağlık İdaresi Dergisi 2018 Vol.21 Issue 4, pp.641-653

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2018

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000454034

Sıklık:

Üç Aylık

eISSN:

2148-9041