Entrepreneurship and management in the therapeutic revolution: The modernisation of laboratories and hospitals in Barcelona, 1880–1960

Paloma Fernández Pérez and Ferran Sabaté Casellas
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Paloma Fernández Pérez: University of Barcelona, Spain
Ferran Sabaté Casellas: University of Barcelona, Spain

Investigaciones de Historia Económica - Economic History Research (IHE-EHR), Journal of the Spanish Economic History Association, 2019, vol. 15, issue 02, 91-101

Abstract: By using data from business history the first objective of this article is to provide new empirical evidence that demonstrates the diversity of ownership and management styles in the health care system before the era of large public hospitals of the 1960s. The second objective is to provide indices that suggest that, in times of innovation and rapid expansion, inefficiency in the management of resources can have a negative influence on the development of health systems and in welfare potential, from a local and business history perspective. The article presents new data from hospital and clinic archives that may contribute to debates about the supposed automatic link between increases in health spending and improvements in welfare, arguing that such a link cannot be analysed independently of the efficiency in the management of that health spending. KEY Classification-JEL: I10. I15. N84. O30

Keywords: Cuidado; de; la; salud.; Plasma.; Rayos; X.; Barcelona (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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