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Date: May 27, 2008 (Tuesday)
Time: 12:30 – 14:00 (sandwich lunch from 12:30 –12:45; seminar begins at 12:45)
Venue: Seminar Room 6, LG-1/F, Laboratory Block, Faculty of Medicine Building, 21
Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Abstract:
Obtaining the maximum output from a given quantity of scarce resources has been the
focus of policy makers for centuries. Productive efficiency analysis is the economists'
response to the question of what economic agents are more productive in competitive
markets. Although resources are scarce also in the production of health and health care,
they are not produced in competitive markets -neither maximization of profit is the ultimate
goal of managers, nor the final product is homogeneous; moreover, information between
patients and health providers is not symmetric. Therefore, measuring productive
efficiency in the production of health care presents a series of challenges. This talk
considers the nature of these challenges. Relying on the case study of the new contracts
for consultants introduced the United Kingdom in 2003, the traditional statistical methods
for efficiency analysis and their properties are discussed and the productivity change is
analyzed.
Bio-sketch:
Dr Eduardo Fe-Rodriguez is a Research Council United Kingdom (RCUK) Fellow in Health
Economics in the Health Methodology Research Group at the University of Manchester.
He holds a PhD in Econometrics from the University of Manchester. In the past, he had
positions at the Centre for Public Health (Liverpool John Moores) and the Department of
Economics of the University of Manchester. His research involves aspects of Theoretical
and Applied Econometrics, as well as Health Economics. He has written papers in the
areas of nonparametric misspecification testing, estimation of efficiency models for counts,
efficiency in health services and health human resource planning and domestic violence.
For registration and enquiries, please call
Miss Amy Pang at 2819-2824 or email mhrn@hkusua.hku.hk
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