Technical and Allocative Inefficiency in Spanish Public Hospitals

• C. García-Prieto ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Valladolid
• Localización: Essays on microeconomics and industrial organisation / coord. por Pablo Coto Millán, 2002, ISBN 3-7908-1390-7, págs. 61-74
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The OECD economies are undergoing an upward trend in health expenditure. The usual explanations for this tendency are based on such elements as the progressive ageing of population, the increasing use of technology in health procedures, and the fact that public health services become more extensive (cover more people) year after year.