Financial incentives and productive efficiency in Finnish health centres

Health Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 435-445

  Luoma, Kalevi ^a   Järviö, Maija Liisa ^a   Suoniemi, Ilpo ^a   Hjerppe, Reino T ^a  

^a Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus Finland   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cost efficiency; Data envelopment analysis; Health centre; Productive efficiency; Tobit model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; FINLAND; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REIMBURSEMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; COST CONTROL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; FINLAND; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0030227310     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1050(199609)5:5<435::aid-hec223>3.3.co;2-p     Document Type: Article

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