Exploring the influence of context and policy on health district productivity in Cambodia

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Ensor, Tim ^a   So, Sovannarith ^b   Witter, Sophie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b Cambodia Development and Research Institute   (Cambodia)

^c QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cambodia; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Health districts; Health sector reform; Productivity; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

CAMBODIA; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EQUITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MANAGER; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STAFF;

EID: 84969324040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12962-016-0051-6     Document Type: Article

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