Value Efficiency Analysis of Health Systems

  1. González Fidalgo, Eduardo 1
  2. Cárcaba García, Ana 1
  3. Ventura Victoria, Juan 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

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ISSN: 1988-8767

Any de publicació: 2008

Número: 417

Tipus: Document de treball

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Measuring the performance of health systems is necessary to orient policy decisions. Lacking a theoretical health production function, benchmarking is the best feasible strategy to establish a relationship between health resources and outcomes. This paper uses Value Efficiency Analysis (VEA) to measure the efficiency of the health systems of 166 countries using data on healthy life expectancy and infant mortality as health outcomes. Expenditure in health and education are used as inputs. The results show that the public share in health expenditure and the weight of health expenditure on public budgets are two factors positively associated with health systems’ performance.

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