Abstract Introduction Nitrogen is a key nutrient for plants. Often less than 50% of the applied nitrogen fertilisers acquired by crops and can be easily lost into environment causing environmental pollution. Thus, to make agriculture more sustainable, it important investigate which factors determine use efficiency (NUE). We investigated whether NUE was higher in organically managed soils compar...

BACKGROUND Based on 2000 Carl Taube Lecture at the NIMH Mental Health Economics Meeting. AIMS OF THE STUDY This perspective article examines the relationship between a policy of parity in financing mental health services and the future of reform in service delivery. METHODS Applying theories of static and dynamic efficiency to an understanding of parity and the evolution of mental health se...

This study aims to determine the level of efficiency maternal health services, explain factors that cause inefficiency in districts/cities province East Java. Using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The results showed variable return scale (VRS) test were better than constant (CRS), there was a change from relatively inefficient using VRS efficient regions VRS. partial regression AAB affect inef...

INTRODUCTION This study investigates the efficiency gains of integrated care models in Switzerland, since these models are regarded as cost containment options in national social health insurance. These plans generate much lower average health care expenditure than the basic insurance plan. The question is, however, to what extent these total savings are due to the effects of selection and effi...

BACKGROUND The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method has been fruitfully used in many countries in Asia, Europe and North America to shed light on the efficiency of health facilities and programmes. There is, however, a dearth of such studies in countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Since hospitals and health centres are important instruments in the efforts to scale up pro-poor cost-effective inter...