Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Introduction and Overview
- 1 Overview of Performance Analytics for Healthcare with Examples in R
- 2 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Healthcare: From Theory to Practice to Problems and Solutions
- 3 Capabilities, QALYs, and COVID
- 4 The Economic Efficiency of Policies to Reduce Ill Health Involving Environmental Factors
- 5 Health in the National Accounts
- 6 Healthcare as Social Infrastructure: Productivity and the UK National Health Service During and After COVID-19
- 7 Health, Human Capital, and Its Contribution to Economic Growth
- 8 What Do We Know from the Vast Literature on Efficiency and Productivity in Healthcare? A Review and Bibliometric Analysis
- 9 Brief Overview of Production Theory for Analyzing Healthcare Performance
- 10 Modeling Production of Well-Being from an Intermediate Medical Intervention: With an Empirical Demonstration
- 11 Data Envelopment Analysis Applications and US Hospital Policy
- 12 New Tools for Evaluating the Performance of Healthcare Providers Using DEA and FDH Estimators
- 13 Stochastic Frontier Analysis for Healthcare, with Illustrations in R
- 14 A Review of US Stochastic Frontier Studies of Hospital Efficiency Published After 2008
- 15 Nonparametric Journey through Conditional Frontier Models
- 16 Measuring Health and Healthcare Efficiency: Revised Guidelines for Measurement
- 17 A Brief Introduction to Causal Inference in Healthcare
- 18 Dynamic Assignment of Patients to Primary and Secondary Inpatient Units: Is Patience a Virtue?
- Index
6 - Healthcare as Social Infrastructure: Productivity and the UK National Health Service During and After COVID-19
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2024
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Introduction and Overview
- 1 Overview of Performance Analytics for Healthcare with Examples in R
- 2 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Healthcare: From Theory to Practice to Problems and Solutions
- 3 Capabilities, QALYs, and COVID
- 4 The Economic Efficiency of Policies to Reduce Ill Health Involving Environmental Factors
- 5 Health in the National Accounts
- 6 Healthcare as Social Infrastructure: Productivity and the UK National Health Service During and After COVID-19
- 7 Health, Human Capital, and Its Contribution to Economic Growth
- 8 What Do We Know from the Vast Literature on Efficiency and Productivity in Healthcare? A Review and Bibliometric Analysis
- 9 Brief Overview of Production Theory for Analyzing Healthcare Performance
- 10 Modeling Production of Well-Being from an Intermediate Medical Intervention: With an Empirical Demonstration
- 11 Data Envelopment Analysis Applications and US Hospital Policy
- 12 New Tools for Evaluating the Performance of Healthcare Providers Using DEA and FDH Estimators
- 13 Stochastic Frontier Analysis for Healthcare, with Illustrations in R
- 14 A Review of US Stochastic Frontier Studies of Hospital Efficiency Published After 2008
- 15 Nonparametric Journey through Conditional Frontier Models
- 16 Measuring Health and Healthcare Efficiency: Revised Guidelines for Measurement
- 17 A Brief Introduction to Causal Inference in Healthcare
- 18 Dynamic Assignment of Patients to Primary and Secondary Inpatient Units: Is Patience a Virtue?
- Index
Summary
This chapter discusses the implications of considering the health system as part of the national social infrastructure, using the example of the demand surge experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic for the UK’s rationed, largely free at the point of need National Health Service (NHS). It explores the impact of the past prioritization of the cost efficiency of the service rather than long-term need. An infrastructure perspective incorporating resilience and peak-demand considerations sheds new light on the performance of the health service and underlines the role of healthcare systems in human capital investment and economy-wide productivity.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of HealthcareProductivity, Efficiency, Effectiveness, pp. 160 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024