BACKGROUND Health centers in Ghana play an important role in health care delivery especially in deprived communities. They usually serve as the first line of service and meet basic health care needs. Unfortunately, these facilities are faced with inadequate resources. While health policy makers seek to increase resources committed to primary healthcare, it is important to understand the nature ...

In an effort to improve health service delivery and achieve better health outcomes, the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for improved efficiency of health care systems to better use the available funding. This study aims to examine the efficiency of national health systems using longitudinal country-level data. Data on health spending per capita, infant mortality rate (IMR), under 5 m...

Overall, the health of Irish population has improved substantially during recent decades and is quite good compared with other OECD countries. However, spending elevated, partly reflecting a system that strongly based on hospitals. Population ageing exacerbating pressures. In addition, sector dealing past underspending, particularly in capital outlays years following global financial crisis, ha...

Introduction. Effective health systems make a significant contribution to the economic growth and sustainable development of each country. It is impossible solve problems related financing care system without assessing its efficiency. Research implementation main directions improving efficiency involves mechanisms assesment. The purpose work study theoretical practical aspects regional European...

In this paper, we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this efficiency advantage is solely driven by intelligence. We operationalize efficiency of health investment as the probability of dying conditional on a certain hospital diagnosis and estimate a multistate structural equation model with three states: (i) healthy, (ii) hospitalize...