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Cost efficiency of university hospitals in the Nordic countries: a cross-country analysis

Medin, Emma; Anthun, Kjartan; Häkkinen, Unto; … - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 12 (2011) 6, pp. 509-519

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Measuring cost efficiency in the Nordic Hospitals—a cross-sectional comparison of public hospitals in 2002

Linna, Miika; Häkkinen, Unto; Peltola, Mikko; … - In: Health Care Management Science 13 (2010) 4, pp. 346-357

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van Doorslaer, Eddy; Wagstaff, Adam; Bleichrodt, Han; … - In: Journal of Health Economics 16 (1997) 1, pp. 93-112

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Health care and income distribution in Finland

Klavus, Jan; Hakkinen, Unto - In: Health Policy 38 (1996) 1, pp. 31-43

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Nguyen, Lien; Hakkinen, Unto - In: Applied Health Economics and Health Policy 3 (2004) 4, pp. 251-262

The aim of this article is to measure and explain income-related inequalities in dentist utilisation. We apply concentration and horizontal inequity indices and the decomposition method to decompose observed inequalities into sources. The data are from the Finnish Health Care Survey of 1996. We...

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Priority-setting in Finnish healthcare

Rissanen, Pekka; Hakkinen, Unto - In: Health Policy 50 (1999) 1-2, pp. 143-153

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Mikkola, Hennamari; Keskimaki, Ilmo; Hakkinen, Unto - In: Health Policy 59 (2002) 1, pp. 37-51

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Measuring the productive efficiency and clinical quality of institutional long-term care for the elderly

Laine, Juha; Linna, Miika; Häkkinen, Unto; Noro, Anja - In: Health Economics 14 (2005) 3, pp. 245-256

The authors consider the association between productive efficiency and clinical quality in institutional long-term care for the elderly. Cross-sectional data were collected from 122 wards in health-centre hospitals and residential homes in Finland in 2001. Productive efficiency was measured in...

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Technical and cost efficiency of oral health care provision in Finnish health centres

Linna, Miika; Nordblad, Anne; Koivu, Matti - In: Social Science & Medicine 56 (2003) 2, pp. 343-353

In this study we measured the productive efficiency of public dental health provision across Finland. The analysis was based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) using linear programming. In addition, we investigated various factors explaining the technical and cost efficiency of public dental...

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Reimbursing for the costs of teaching and research in finnish hospitals: A stochastic frontier analysis

Linna, Miika; Häkkinen, Unto - In: International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 6 (2006) 1, pp. 83-97

In this study stochastic frontier cost function was used to estimate the teaching and research costs of Finnish hospitals. Predicted efficiency adjusted costs were calculated and compared to evaluate the current level of teaching and research reimbursement. The efficiency adjustment had...

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