dc.contributor
Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
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Puig, Jaume
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Ortún Rubio, Vicente
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2017-07-26T10:51:03Z
dc.date.issued
2017-07-26T10:51:03Z
dc.date.issued
2003-07-01
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2017-07-23T02:08:05Z
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https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=719
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Health Economics, 2004; 13: 1149-1165
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http://hdl.handle.net/10230/800
dc.description.abstract
The principal aim of this paper is to estimate a stochastic frontier cost
function and an inefficiency effects model in the analysis of the primary
health care services purchased by the public authority and supplied by 180
providers in 1996 in Catalonia. The evidence from our sample does not support
the premise that contracting out has helped improve purchasing cost
efficiency in primary care. Inefficient purchasing cost was observed in the
component of this purchasing cost explicitly included in the contract between
purchaser and provider. There are no observable incentives for the
contracted-out primary health care teams to minimise prescription costs, which
are not explicitly included in the present contracting system.
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application/pdf
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application/pdf
dc.relation
Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 719
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject
primary health care
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purchasing cost efficiency
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frontier models
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Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics
dc.title
Cost efficiency in primary care contracting: A stochastic frontier cost function approach
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info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
