Potential determinants of health system efficiency: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean.

ABSTRACT: This paper examines the levels of health system efficiency and their possible determinants across Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries using national-level data for those countries, as well as for other emerging and developed countries. The data are analyzed using data envelopment analyses and econometric advances that yield reliable estimations of the relationship between system efficiency and its potential determinants. We find that there is substantial room for efficiency improvements in the health system of most LAC countries. For example, LAC countries could improve life expectancy at birth by about five years on average at current public spending levels if they followed best practices. Furthermore, the paper assesses what factors amenable to policy act as the main possible le

SUBMITTER: Moreno-Serra R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6510473 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature