The Cambridge Handbook of Healthcare
Productivity, Efficiency, Effectiveness

Health is central to human well-being and, therefore, inextricably bound to questions of productivity, efficiency, and economic development.

Shawna Grosskopf (Edited by), Vivian Valdmanis (Edited by), Valentin Zelenyuk (Edited by)

9781009483773, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 November 2024

674 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 4.3 cm, 1.11 kg

'This Handbook serves as a crucial guide for enhancing healthcare's productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness, catering to academics, practitioners, and policymakers. It seamlessly integrates theoretical concepts with real-world practices, presenting a thorough summary of global empirical studies and cutting-edge techniques such as Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis. The text offers both engaging introductions and comprehensive literature reviews, alongside advanced explorations of new methodologies by foremost experts in the field. Indispensable for those dedicated to improving global healthcare performance, this Handbook's well-rounded perspective makes it a noteworthy contribution to the discipline.' Peter Bogetoft, Copenhagen Business School (CBS)

Healthcare is inextricably bound to productivity, efficiency, and economic development. Although many methods for analyzing productivity and efficiency have been extensively covered, relatively little focus has been placed on how those methods can be applied to health care in a coherent and comprehensive manner. The Cambridge Handbook of Healthcare outlines current foundations and states of the art on which future research can build. It brings together experts in this growing field to cover three key sources and aspects of human welfare – productivity, efficiency, and healthcare. Beginning with academic focused chapters, this book bridges and provides outreach to the practice and regulation of the health care industry and includes academic and regulatory perspectives, including overviews of major evidence from international empirical applications. Each chapter is dedicated to a particular topic and delivered by international experts on that topic.

Introduction and an Overview Shawna Grosskopf, Vivian Valdmanis and Valentin Zelenyuk
1. Overview of Performance Analytics for Healthcare with Examples in R Zhichao Wang and Valentin Zelenyuk
2. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Healthcare: From Theory to Practice to Problems and Solutions Stephen Birch and Amiram Gafni
3. Capabilities, QALYs and COVID Han Bleichrodt and John Quiggin
4. The Economic Efficiency of Policies to Reduce Ill Health Involving Environmental Factors Clement A. Tisdell
5. Health in the National Accounts Paul Schreyer
6. Healthcare as Social Infrastructure: Productivity and the UK National Health Service during and after COVID-19 Diane Coyle
7. Health, Human Capital and its Contribution to Economic Growth Wulong Gu
8. What Do We Know from the Vast Literature on Efficiency and Productivity in Healthcare? A Review and Bibliometric Analysis Kok Fong See, Shawna Grosskopf, Vivian Valdmanis and Valentin Zelenyuk
9. Brief Overview of Production Theory for Analysing Healthcare Performance Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf
10. Modelling Production of Well-being from an Intermediate Medical Intervention Rikard Althin, Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf and Marcus Schmitt-Egenolf
11. Data Envelopment Analysis Applications and US Hospital Policy Vivian Valdmanis, Shawna Grosskopf, Valentin Zelenyuk and Gary Ferrier
12. New Tools for Evaluating the Performance of Health-Care Providers using DEA and FDH Estimators Léopold Simar and Paul W. Wilson
13. Stochastic Frontier Analysis for Healthcare, with Illustrations in R Zhichao Wang, Robin C. Sickles and Valentin Zelenyuk
14. A Review of US Stochastic Frontier Studies of Hospital Efficiency Published After 2008 Michael Rosko
15. A Nonparametric Journey through Conditional Frontier Models Luiza Bădin, Camilla Mastromarco and Raffaele Lagravinese
16. Measuring Health and Health Care Efficiency: Revised Guidelines for Measurement Bruce Hollingsworth
17. A Brief Introduction to Causal Inference in Healthcare Scott Cunningham and Jonathan A. Seward
18. Dynamic Assignment of Patients to Primary and Secondary Inpatient Units: Is Patience a Virtue? Soroush Saghafian, Derya Kilinc and Stephen J. Traub.

Subject Areas: Economics of industrial organisation [KCD]