A Bayesian Approach for Evaluation of Determinants of Health System Efficiency Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis and Beta Regression.
In today's world, Public expenditures on health are one of the most important issues for governments. These increased expenditures are putting pressure on public budgets. Therefore, health policy makers have focused on the performance of their health systems and many countries have introduced reforms to improve the performance of their health systems. This study investigates the most important determinants of healthcare efficiency for OECD countries using second stage approach for Bayesian Stochastic Frontier Analysis (BSFA). There are two steps in this study. First we measure 29 OECD countries' healthcare efficiency by BSFA using the data from the OECD Health Database. At second stage, we expose the multiple relationships between the healthcare efficiency and characteristics of healthcare systems across OECD countries using Bayesian beta regression.
Department of Statistics, Ondokuz Mayıs University, 55139 Samsun, Turkey.
Talat
0000-0001-7220-9813
T
Şenel
Department of Statistics, Ondokuz Mayıs University, 55139 Samsun, Turkey.
Mehmet Ali
0000-0002-1271-2588
MA
Cengiz
D000465:Algorithms; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006291:Health Policy; D006302:Health Services Research; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012907:Smoking; D013269:Stochastic Processes