Abstract: The Swedish health care system is to a large extent publicly managed by 21 local
county councils. During recent years there has been a movement were local county councils
have opted to allow more of the production to be performed by alternative producers (i.e.
private firms, cooperatives etc.). The purpose of this paper is thus to study if local county
councils who has a large proportion of health care performed by alternative producers are
more economically efficient than other county councils. The results indicate that county
councils with more alternative caregivers are supplying their services more efficiently.
Keywords: Economic efficiency in health care, Data Envelopment Analysis, Tobit regression
JEL-Codes: I11, I12, H40
More intriguing information
1. The name is absent2. The name is absent
3. Segmentación en la era de la globalización: ¿Cómo encontrar un segmento nuevo de mercado?
4. The name is absent
5. How Low Business Tax Rates Attract Multinational Headquarters: Municipality-Level Evidence from Germany
6. A Rare Case Of Fallopian Tube Cancer
7. The economic value of food labels: A lab experiment on safer infant milk formula
8. A Hybrid Neural Network and Virtual Reality System for Spatial Language Processing
9. How Offshoring Can Affect the Industries’ Skill Composition
10. Publication of Foreign Exchange Statistics by the Central Bank of Chile