Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11718/733
Title: Hospital efficiency: an empirical analysis of district and grant-in-aid hospitals in Gujarat
Authors: Bhat, Ramesh
Verma, Bharat Bhushan
Reuben, Elan
Keywords: Grants-in-aid;Hospitals - Gujarat
Issue Date: 16-Jan-2010
Series/Report no.: W.P.;1663
Abstract: This study focuses on analysing the hospital efficiency of district level government hospitals and grant-in-aid hospitals in Gujarat. The study makes an attempt to provide an overview of the general status of the health care services provided by hospitals in the state of Gujarat in terms of their technical and allocative efficiency. One of the two thrusts behind addressing the issue of efficiency was to take stock of the state of healthcare services (in terms of efficiency) provided by grant-in-aid hospitals and district hospitals in Gujarat. The motivation behind addressing the efficiency issue is to provide empirical analysis of government's policy to provide grants to not-for-profit making institutions which in turn provide hospital care in the state. The study addresses the issue whether grant-in-aid hospitals are relatively more efficient than public hospitals. This comparison between grant-in-aid hospitals and district hospitals in terms of their efficiency has been of interest to many researchers in countries other than India, and no consensus has been reached so far as to which category is more efficient. The relative efficiency of government and not-for-profit sector has been reviewed in this paper. It is expected that the findings of the study would be useful to evaluate this policy and help policy makers to develop benchmarks in providing the grants to such institutions.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11718/733
Appears in Collections:Working Papers

Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormat 
WP 2001_1663.pdf1.98 MBAdobe PDFView/Open


Items in IIMA Institutional Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.