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. 2024 Jun 26;22(1):53.
doi: 10.1186/s12962-024-00555-y.

Valuating the efficiency of social security and healthcare in OECD countries from a sustainable development

Li-Wen Lee  1 , Yung-Ho Chiu  2 , Fan-Peng Liu  1 , Tai-Yu Lin  3 , Tzu-Han Chang  1
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Valuating the efficiency of social security and healthcare in OECD countries from a sustainable development

Li-Wen Lee et al. Cost Eff Resour Alloc. .

Abstract

Under the goal of sustainable development, coping with the increase in social security and healthcare expenses caused by population aging is becoming increasingly important, but it is rare in the literature to evaluate the impact of social security efficiency on healthcare efficiency. This research uses the dynamic SBM two-stage model to observe the efficiencies of social security and healthcare in OECD countries. There are two findings as follows. First, the higher social security efficiency is, the better is the healthcare efficiency of countries with lower per capita GDP. Second, higher social security efficiency of National Health Service (NHS) countries denote better healthcare efficiency. When the financial source of the social security system is taxation, then it is more likely to bring higher efficiency to healthcare.

Keywords: Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Healthcare efficiency; Social security efficiency; Sustainable development; Undesirable output.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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General overview of variables and carry-over
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Correlation analysis
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Correlation analysis between GDP > 4.15 and GDP < 4.15 for social security stage and healthcare stage
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Correlation analysis of social security stage and healthcare stage of NHI and NHS
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