The Cambridge Handbook of Healthcare Productivity, Efficiency, Effectiveness

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.

Shawna Patricia Grosskopf is Professor Emerita of Economics at Oregon State. She is the an Associate Editor for Journal of Productivity Analysis and has an honorary doctorate from Gothenburg University. She was ranked 107th in the US in 2022 World's Best Economics and Finance Scientists and was appointed by the Swedish Parliament to the Kersten Hesselgren chair in 1996.
Vivian Valdmanis is a retired Professor with over thirty years in health economics. She has published over eighty papers and chapters on hospital ownership and productivity, efficiency and plant capacity of hospitals and long-term care facilities. She has held affiliations with Erasmus University, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Valentin Zelenyuk is a Australian Research Council Future Fellow Professor at the School of Economics at the University of Queensland, where he also was Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2017–2022). He is an elected member of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth of NBER, as well as an Associate Editor for Journal of Productivity Analysis, and has co-authored over 70 publications in journals and books.