Title: Comparative analysis of international healthcare systems

Authors: John Wang, Ruiliang Yan, Peijun Guo

Addresses: Department of Management and Information Systems, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ 07043, USA. ' School of Business and Economics, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN 46408, USA. ' Faculty of Business Administration, Department of Management System Science, Yokohama National University, 79-4 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan

Abstract: International comparisons of healthcare systems are usually performed using subjective methods available in the literature. As a result, it is difficult to obtain standard rankings for countries. A mathematical evaluation method based on the concept of Pareto-optimal organisation is proposed for this paper. The method is simple and uses a linear programming model. The weights for various measurements are chosen by an objective method and are standard. The method is illustrated with real data from a sample of OECD member countries.

Keywords: healthcare systems; multiple objective decision making; linear programming; international comparisons; Pareto optimisation; standard rankings; statistics; statistical data; optimal organisation; OECD; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; Australia; Austria; Belgium; Canada; Denmark; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iceland; Italy; Japan; South Korea; Mexico; Holland; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; USA: United States; business; systems research.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBSR.2011.037292

International Journal of Business and Systems Research, 2011 Vol.5 No.1, pp.85 - 103

Published online: 17 Apr 2015 *

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