Health Care System Effects on Cost Efficiency in the OECD Countries

Ulf-G. Gerdtham and Mickael Löthgren ()
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Mickael Löthgren: Dept. of Economic Statistics, Stockholm School of Economics, Postal: Stockholm School of Economics, P.O. Box 6501, S-113 83 Stockholm, Sweden

No 247, SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance from Stockholm School of Economics

Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of different health systems on cost efficiency in inpatient health care among the OECD countries. The results indicate that public contract systems are less efficient and that public integrated health systems are more efficient than public reimbursement systems.

Keywords: International comparisons; OECD data; Panel data; Cost efficiency; Stochastic frontier (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C23 I10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 1998-06-18
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Published in Applied Economics, 2001, pages 643-647.

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