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Book SynopsisHospitals worldwide command the majority of various countries health care budget. This volume provides the reader with an insight in the complexity of the issue. It provides examples of such strategy in Finland and Australia. It is suitable for policymakers and hospital managers, and for students of health economics and health administration.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Productivity in Hospital Industry. Chapter 2 Measuring and Decomposing Productivity Change: The Basics. Chapter 3 Measuring Hospital Services. Chapter 4 Hospital Consolidation and Integration Activity in the United States. Chapter 5 Organizational Structure and Productive Efficiency of Non-Profit Hospitals. Chapter 6 Innovations and Productivity: An Empirical Investigation in Dutch Hospital Industry. Chapter 7 The Impact of Ownership on the Cost-Efficiency of U.S. Hospitals. Chapter 8 Competition and Market Concentration. Chapter 9 Efficiency and Productivity Changes in Large Urban Hospitals 1994–2002: Ownership, Markets, and the Uninsured. Chapter 10 Benchmarking Finnish Hospitals. Chapter 11 Efficiency in Government-Funded Health Care Services: The Use of Non-Health Sector Mechanisms to Encourage Efficiency. Chapter 12 Evaluating Health Care Efficiency. Chapter 13 Efficiency in Hospital Industry: Summary and Conclusions. Preface. Abstracts. List of Contributors. About the Authors. Subject Index.
