Comparative efficiency of national health systems: cross national econometric analysis

Comparative efficiency of national health systems: cross national econometric analysis.

OBJECTIVE To improve the evidence base for health policy by devising a method to measure and monitor the performance of health systems. DESIGN Estimation of the relation between levels of population health and the inputs used to produce health. SETTING 191 countries. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Health system efficiency (performance). RESULTS Estimated efficiency varied from nearly fully effici...

Cross-National Diffusion of Mental Health Policy

Background Following the tenets of world polity and innovation diffusion theories, I focus on the coercive and mimetic forces that influence the diffusion of mental health policy across nations. International organizations’ mandates influence government behavior. Dependency on external resources, namely foreign aid, also affects governments’ formulation of national policy. And finally, mounting...

Comparative, dynamic efficiency of national healthcare systems

The paper is an ex post, critical contribution to the research conducted by the World Health Organisation on healthcare financing. The issue of national healthcare systems’ efficiency is addressed, through building a model of change in healthcare quality, in response to changes in healthcare financing, with the core hypothesis stating that the greater is the change in healthcare expenditures, t...

The Comparative Efficiency of National Health Systems in Producing Health: an Analysis of 191 Countries

Comparative Health Systems, the future of national health care systems, an economic analysis : France