Background The pandemic generated by Covid-19 has changed the way of life of citizens
around the world in a short time, affecting all areas of society directly or indirectly, which is …

Background: The provision of health-care services is dependent on the effective and efficient
functioning of various components of a health-care system. It is therefore important to …

In the face of increasingly growing health demands and the impact of various public health
emergencies, it is of great significance to study the regional differences in the allocation …

The demand in the healthcare industry is increasing exponentially due to aging population
of the world and this is leading to a rapid increase in the cost of healthcare. The emergency …

The efficiency and productivity evaluation process commonly employs Data Envelopment
Analysis (DEA) as a performance tool in numerous fields, such as the healthcare industry …

Background One of the most important issues in public policy and welfare state is health
care. Poor management leads to the waste of resources, including money, human …

Abstract Introduction Burkina Faso faces many challenges in the health domain, with no real
opportunity for an increase in public health expenditures. In Burkina Faso, as in all low …

Background The reform of county-level public hospitals is a breakthrough in the new era of
healthcare reform in China and has attracted considerable attention since 2012. Continuous …

In the last decades, there has been a growing interest in measuring the efficiency of
hospitals using different methodological approaches, mainly represented by data …

This paper introduces a new empirical procedure for the estimation of hospitals' technical
efficiency in presence of spatial heterogeneity. We propose a methodology that allows …