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

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 343-353

  Linna, Miika ^a   Nordblad, Anne ^a   Koivu, Matti ^b  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cost efficiency; Data envelopment analysis; Financing; Finland; Oral health

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DENTAL HEALTH; FINLAND; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CENTER; MEASUREMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY DENTISTRY; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; FINLAND; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFANT; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; OFFICE VISITS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

FINLAND;

EID: 0037211498     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00032-1     Document Type: Article

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