EVALUATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH EFFICIENCY: CASE OF V4 COUNTRIES

• Authors: Lacko Roman , Markovič Peter , Šagátová Slávka , Hajduová Zuzana
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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The study deals with the topic of evaluation and comparison of environmental efficiency and efficiency of health care systems in the V4 countries during the period from 2009 to 2017. The uniqueness of this study lies in the comparison of two different types of efficiencies and in the selection of the object of research. The aim of this paper was to examine the possible relationship between environmental and health efficiency in the V4 countries and to reveal the common determinants of these efficiencies. We implemented the method of two-step Data envelopment analysis, in which, we determined the values of input CCR and BCC health and environmental efficiency in the first step and then in the second step, we used the method of truncated regression to verify the effects of selected determinants of computed efficiencies in V4 countries. Based on these analyses, we found that although there is no significant relationship between the values of health efficiency and environmental efficiency, some determinants significantly affect both types of efficiencies.

Keywords

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HEALTHCARE; ENVIRONMENT; EFFICIENCY; DEA; TRUNCATED REGRESSION; V4 COUNTRIES

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak and World Economics and Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 1040 – 1056

Contributors

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Lacko Roman

• University of Economics in Bratislava, Faculty of Business Economics with seat in Košice, Tajovského 13, 041 30 Košice, Slovak Republic

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Markovič Peter

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Šagátová Slávka

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Hajduová Zuzana

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/ekoncas.2020.10.04