The release of the World Health Report 2000 has brought to the fore the concept of responsiveness as an indicator of … health system performance. Responsiveness relates to a system's ability to respond to the legitimate expectations of … potential users about non-health enhancing aspects of care (Valentine et al. 2003). A few studies have investigated how standard …

in health care, based on international parameters which, because they are restricted to internal scope of a nation … it is a serious mistake to try to handle public health conflicts according to the typical judicial principles governing … conflicts under private law, because that distorts the public health system, with judicial orders that depart from the universal …

The release of the World Health Report 2000 has brought to the fore the concept of re sponsiveness as an indicat or of … health system performance . Responsiveness relat es to a system’s ability to respond to the legitimate expectations of … potential users about non - health enhancing aspects of care (Valentine et al. 2003). A few studies have investigated how …

The model studies the role of reputation in contracts between providers and purchasers of health care services. The … economic literature has examined the case when the demand for health services depends on the quality offered, but because of …

Since the late eighties the Italian National Health System, in particular hospital care, has undergone deep reforms …. This paper evaluates the technical efficiency of Italian public hospitals in light of the main features of the hospital … hospitals over the period 2000-2004 and applying DEA, a non-parametric method. Individual efficiency is partly explained by the …