A note on entry by small hospitals

Article Abstract:

Fourteen of the 20 general acute care hospitals that have recently opened in California have fewer than 100 beds, while 18 of them have fewer than 200 beds. This challenges the assumptions that small hospitals realize economies of scale only beyond 200 beds, and that hospitals with less than 100 beds are highly inefficient. The factors that may have led to the assumption that 100-bed hospitals cannot realize economies of scale are discussed.

General Medical and Surgical Hospitals, General medical & surgical hospitals, Acute Care Hospitals, Economic aspects, Hospitals, Hospital size

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Exploring social welfare functions and violation of monotonicity: an example from inequalities in health-a comment

Article Abstract:

A comment on the topic of the strengths of preferences for reducing inequalities in health across social classes is presented. Jan Abel Olsen feels that the topic is well written and refers to economic literature that acknowledges non-monotonic social welfare functions.

United Kingdom, Analysis, Social service, Health services administration, Social welfare

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A note on eliciting distributive preferences for health

Article Abstract:

Research is presented into some of the problems associated with measuring people's distributive preferences for equity in health.

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