What is it about?
Health is a fundamental human right, and good health is an essential component of well-being; therefore, an efficient public health system is required to achieve well-being in society. We show for the first time how an accountable and efficient public health system improves well-being in Italian provinces.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
This work aims to analyse the relationship between public health efficiency and well-being considering a panel of 102 Italian provinces over the period 2000 – 2016, using a multi-input and output bootstrap DEA to assess public health efficiency, a multidimensional composite index to measure well-being and finally a two-stage least squares model (2SLS) to identify the causal effect of improving public health efficiency on well-being accounting for time-invariant heterogeneity, omitted variable bias and endogeneity bias. We find that accountable and efficient public health systems significantly improve well-being in Italian provinces. The effects are concentrated in the North, the most economically, geographically, and environmentally advantageous areas. These findings could help policymakers adopt measures to strengthen public health systems, encourage private providers and inspire countries worldwide.
Perspectives
I hope this article will make interesting, and perhaps even exciting, what one might think of as a boring and somewhat abstract field as health economics, the measurement of health and its impact on well-being. Because the way we spend money on health and social care for people's well-being is not just an issue for politicians, managers and researchers to worry about because health is a fundamental right: it is an issue that touches every single human being on this planet in one way or another. More than anything else, and if nothing else, I hope this article makes people think.
Dr. Rostand Arland Yebetchou Tchounkeu
Universita Politecnica delle Marche
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: The impact of public health efficiency on well-being in Italian provinces, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, May 2024, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/jes-06-2023-0306.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
