Health and efficiency.

Health and efficiency.

By any standards the National Health Service offers investors a superb return on their money. An annual investment of about £370 each yields access to primary health care and treatment in some of the world's most advanced hospitals. Nowhere else offers such a good deal. Yet a rumour has been circulating (for about as long as a reduction in public spending has been in vogue) that the system is g...

Improving Health System Efficiency

Community health center efficiency: the role of grant revenues in health center efficiency.

OBJECTIVE To test the relationship between external environments, organizational characteristics, and technical efficiency in federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). We tested the relationship between grant revenue and technical efficiency in FQHCs. DATA SOURCES/STUDY DESIGN Secondary data were collected in each year from the Uniform Data System (UDS) on 644 eligible U.S.-based FQHCs betw...

Efficiency measurement of health care organizations: What models are used?

Background: Literature abounds with various techniques for efficiency measurement of health care organizations (HCOs), which should be used cautiously and appropriately. The present study aimed at discovering the rules regulating the interplay among the number of inputs, outputs, and decision- making units (DMUs) and identifying all methods used for the measurement of Iranian HCOs and criticall...

Victuals and ventilation and the health and efficiency of seamen.

The importance of good victuals and sound methods for ventilating ships to the maintenance of.health and efficiency of seamen is so well known thkt it may appear unnecessary to ask if the lessons and examples, with which British naval history abounds are given the full consideration they merit in modem warship design and operation. We are, however, at the dawft of a new age in naval 'developmen...