hospitals being managed by the DOH. The paper begins with an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines, describing the …The paper attempts to provide an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines with particular emphasis on … size, location, and utilization of hospital services. To assess the efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery in DOH …

collate vital information on private hospitals in the Philippines. This paper looks at the different characteristics and … structures of private hospitals sector with regard to geographical distribution, services, financing, human resource, and other … delivery system in the country, other sections compare private hospitals vis-a-vis government-owned facilities. …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … between neighbouring hospitals (competitive segment), and low-benefit patients who decide whether or not to demand treatment … differ in (geographical) location and, potentially, waiting time, and two types of patients; high-benefit patients who choose …

A nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is performed on hospitals in the federal state of Saxony (Germany) and … countries. Finally, hospital beds are treated as a discretionary input in one DEA and as a fixed input in the other, and the … effect on efficiency is related to differences in hospital planning in Germany and Switzerland. Based on the comparable …

. Inefficiency decreases with less than 10,000 patients treated a year, larger population, and more hospitals in the region. …The paper estimates cost efficiency of 99 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2001-2008 using Stochastic … status, more than 20,000 treated patients a year, not-for-profit status and a larger share of the elderly in the municipality …

This paper uses an unusual administrative dataset covering the universe of French hospitals to consider hospital … for a number of measures of hospital output. NFP hospitals serve as a benchmark, being very similar to Public hospitals … employment: this is consistently higher in public hospitals than in Not-For-Profit (NFP) or private hospitals, even controlling …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect … costs (increased substitutability) or a higher number of hospitals. With semi-altruistic providers and a fairly general cost …