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 Functions of Postpartum Depression
3. Are class size differences related to pupils’ educational progress and classroom processes? Findings from the Institute of Education Class Size Study of children aged 5-7 Years
4. The name is absent
5. Whatever happened to competition in space agency procurement? The case of NASA
6. The name is absent
7. The name is absent
8. Inflation Targeting and Nonlinear Policy Rules: The Case of Asymmetric Preferences (new title: The Fed's monetary policy rule and U.S. inflation: The case of asymmetric preferences)
9. Fiscal federalism and Fiscal Autonomy: Lessons for the UK from other Industrialised Countries
10. The Nobel Memorial Prize for Robert F. Engle