This work develops a simple and comprehensive framework to improve the allocation of public resources to public and private hospitals from the standpoint of public hospital profitability in the presence of income inequalities. The paper illustrates the direct impacts that publicly-funded...

Performance Indicators (PI) has been frequently used as tools for hospitals performance evaluation in Brazil. The presente work evaluates four public and two private hospitals using that approach and a frontier methodology referred in the literature as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA was...

This paper studies the performance of 45 Brazilian federal teaching hospitals, within five semesters as from 1998 by connecting and assessing technical efficiency scores and service indicators. The efficiency scores are obtained from a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model. The service...