HOW EFFECTIVE IS THE USE OF HEALTH CARE RESOURCES IN POLAND? - REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE (Efektywnosc wykorzystania zasobów opieki zdrowotnej w Polsce - perspektywa regionalna)

• Authors: Lyszczarz Blazej
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of the paper is to estimate the technical efficiency of utilization of health care resources in 66 subregions of Poland, using data envelopment analysis methodology. The inputs are represented by the density of doctors, nurses and hospital beds, while the outputs are the life expectancy of, respectively, males and females. Two models, both characterized by varying returns to scale, are used for estimation. Model 1 is output-oriented, while model 2 assumes input orientation. 8 of 66 subregions are efficient. These include the city of Warsaw and the following subregions: krakowski, nowosadecki, tarnowski, rzeszowski, poznanski, szczecinski and gdanski. The least efficient subregions are concentrated in slaskie voivodeship. The correlation analysis is also conducted in order to test the influence of external factors on the efficiency scores. The scores are negatively correlated with pollution, population density and, surprisingly, with remunerations and expenditures of local authorities on health care. The positive correlation characterizes the relationship between efficiency and access to cultural facilities, as well as housing conditions (metric area of flat per person).

Keywords

EN

HEALTH CARE RESOURCES -EFFECTIVE USE

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Uczelnia Łazarskiego. Oficyna Wydawnicza
• Journal: Myśl Ekonomiczna i Prawna
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 1(24)
• Pages: 66-78
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Lyszczarz Blazej

• Blazej Lyszczarz, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika w Toruniu, Collegium Medicum, ul. Jagiellonska 13-15, 85-067 Bydgoszcz, Poland

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CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA08215