Value efficiency analysis of health systems: does public financing play a role?
This study measures the performance of the health system in 165 countries and its relationship with public financing. We use value efficiency analysis (VEA), a refinement of data envelopment analysis (DEA), to measure the efficiency of the health systems using data on healthy life expectancy and dis...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice (2198-1833) Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 337 - 351 |
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