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dc.contributor.authorSpinks, Jean
dc.contributor.authorHollingsworth, Bruce
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T14:21:51Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T14:21:51Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.issn0003-6846
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00036840701604354
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/63792
dc.description.abstractIt has been proposed that cross-country comparisons of the technical efficiency of health production, estimated using data envelopment analysis (DEA), have useful applications for policy makers. In theory such an analysis utilizes measures of the socioeconomic determinants of health relevant to all social policy, not just health policy. Using OECD and WHO data, this article critically analyses a number of outstanding theoretical questions regarding the use of DEA in this setting. It concludes that until such questions are addressed, the resultant implications for policy will be based on misleading information.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom417
dc.relation.ispartofpageto427
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalApplied Economics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume41
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEconometrics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBanking, finance and investment
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3801
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3802
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3502
dc.titleCross-country comparisons of technical efficiency of health production: a demonstration of pitfalls
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorSpinks, Jean M.


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