Policy Evaluation of Public Hospitals

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380375
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Public finance/Public economy
• Research Institution: Kaetsu University
• Principal Investigator: Atoda Naosumi 嘉悦大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 教授 (90144641)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): HAMADA Yoshinosuke 大阪大学, 医学系研究科, 特任準教授 (10362683) ; MANABE Masashi 嘉悦大学, ビジネス創造学部, 准教授 (20537071) ; NISHIDA Kiheiji 兵庫医療大学, 共通教育センター, 講師 (50631652)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 医療経済学 / 地方財政論 / 公共経済学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to investigate the rolls of public hospitals and to evaluate public hospitals as public goods. From the view point of profitability, productivity of capital and labor, financial efficiency, and growth, we compared public hospitals and private hospitals, using the financial data.
The main results of this study is as follows: The facility maintenance costs will be a heavy burden in public hospitals. This facts imply that the management is inefficiency in public hospitals.

Free Research Field

財政学・金融論