Comparative, Dynamic Efficiency of National Healthcare Systems

33 Pages Posted: 12 Apr 2012

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Krzysztof Waśniewski

Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University

Date Written: April 11, 2012

Abstract

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, the lesser is their efficiency in terms of healthcare quality improvement. Then, empirical evidence is provided, with econometric research proving the robustness of the model; further, qualitative research provides strong presumptions to a more general thesis, namely that healthcare systems bear significant transaction costs, proportional to their demographically defined size. Thus, important, and negative effects of scale are to assume in healthcare financing.

Keywords: healthcare, institutions, efficiency

JEL Classification: I1, G28, H41

Suggested Citation

Waśniewski, Krzysztof, Comparative, Dynamic Efficiency of National Healthcare Systems (April 11, 2012). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2038253 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2038253

Krzysztof Waśniewski (Contact Author)

Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University ( email )

ul. Herlinga Grudzińskiego 1
Kraków
Poland

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