Reports Outline Economic Modelling Study Results from University of Naples Parthenope (Assessment of Regional Productive Performance of European Health Systems Under a Metatechnology Framework)

2020 JAN 20 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Economics Daily Report -- Current study results on Economics - Economic Modelling have been published. According to news reporting originating from Naples, Italy, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Within last seventy years, healthcare spending in Europe has grown faster than national income. However, this does not always translate into good health indicators, suggesting a problem of efficiency in different European health systems.”

Financial support for this research came from University of Naples Parthenope, under the Competitive Research Project “Institutional and Economic Imbalances in the Eurozone and the European Union.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the University of Naples Parthenope, “This paper analyzes the efficiency of such systems for 185 European regions in 17 countries by grouping them into three clusters according to their institutional setting: regulation, funding and service provision. We investigate their productive performance by adopting a metafrontier framework for exploring the role of technological spillovers. Our findings suggest that the three European health systems show similar efficiency performance; the best performers are regions that have adopted social healthcare insurance; kernel analysis indicates that there is convergence toward a single club in each frontier.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Finally, we find a dramatic change in the convergence process after the nancial crisis, with European regions converging toward different groups with different levels of efficiency.”

For more information on this research see: Assessment of Regional Productive Performance of European Health Systems Under a Metatechnology Framework. Economic Modelling, 2020;84():234-248. Economic Modelling can be contacted at: Elsevier, Radarweg 29, 1043 Nx Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Economic Modelling - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/economic-modelling/)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting M. Bonasia, University of Naples, Dept. of Business and Economic Studies, Naples, Italy. Additional authors for this research include N. Oreste and K. Kounetas.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2019.04.013. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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