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Avoidable Mortality and Healthcare Expenditure in OECD Countries: DEA and SFA methods to health expenditure efficiency

Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities

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Title Avoidable Mortality and Healthcare Expenditure in OECD Countries: DEA and SFA methods to health expenditure efficiency
 
Creator Yu, Jia
 
Description Healthcare expenditures rise as a share of GDP in most countries, raising questions regarding the value and quality of future spending increases. According to Heijink and Koolman’s (2012) research, it is possible that an above-average rise in healthcare expenditures per year went along with a below-average avoidable mortality reduction. This study estimates quality of health using avoidable mortality as outcome variable, and investigates the relationship between total avoidable mortality and healthcare expenditure using data envelopment analysis (DEA) method and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) method. This research extends Heijink and Koolman’s (2012) studies from 14 developed countries to 31 OECD countries, and also expands disease groups in terms of avoidable mortality from two (diseases of the circulatory system and neoplasms) to four (plus diseases of the respiratory system and diseases of the digestive system). Efficient outcomes across sectors and analytical methods seem to cluster around a small number of core countries, even if for difference reasons: Japan and the United States.
 
Publisher Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities
 
Date 2016-06-05
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://jassh.in/index.php/jassh/article/view/61
10.15520/jassh20561
 
Source Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities; Vol 2 No 05 (2016)
2395-6542
10.15520/jassh205
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://jassh.in/index.php/jassh/article/view/61/76
 
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