Using data envelopment analysis approach to estimate the health production efficiencies in China

Frontiers of Economics in China

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-23

  Zhang, Ning ^a   Hu, Angang ^a   Zheng, Jinghai ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis; Efficiency; Health production

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847339814     PISSN: 16733444     EISSN: 16733568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11459-007-0001-5     Document Type: Article

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