Health system efficiency is a major target of health policy but its conceptualization and measurement are still a … measurements of health system efficiency should focus on the process of turning financial input into additional health output … appropriate efficiency indicator is hence not a country-specific intercept based on the achieved health status, but a country …

This book grows from a conference on the state of the art and recent advances in Efficiency and Productivity. Papers … efficiency and productivity analysis. Chapters on modeling advances include reverse directional distance function, a new method … analysis of productivity and price recovery indices, the relation of technical efficiency measures to productivity measures …