Sökning: "Equity and efficiency"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 41 avhandlingar innehållade orden Equity and efficiency.
1. Exploring Collaboration Between the Fire and Rescue Service and New Actors : Cost-efficiency and Adaptation
Sammanfattning : The emergency services serves an important purpose in society by ensuring that people in need, regardless of their geographical location, receives help when they fall victims to undesirable incidents. Existing resources are however often limited and concentrated to urban areas making travel distances to remote areas long. LÄS MER
2. Setting priorities in health care : Studies on equity and efficiency
Sammanfattning : The inevitable gap between needs and resources in health care, together with the problems associated with a market solution, necessitates priority setting. The aims of this thesis are associated with the process of priority setting in health care, and are divided into three issues:1. LÄS MER
3. Efficiency and acceptability of pricing policies and transport investments in distorted economies
Sammanfattning : This thesis contains five papers studying the economic efficiency and political acceptability of road pricing policies and transport investments in distorted economies. Interactions between the transport market and other distorted markets, such as the labor market, can have a large impact on the welfare effect of a road pricing policy or a transport investment. LÄS MER
4. Health economic evaluation of community-based cardiovascular disease prevention : some theoretical aspects and empirical results
Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses the health economic evaluation of community-based interventions against cardiovascular disease (CVD), with special emphasis on the Västerbotten Intervention Project (VIP), run since 1985.The framework is a simple evaluation model consisting of two parts; the selection and measurement of empirical consequences caused by the project under evaluation (e. LÄS MER
5. Skatterättvisa
Sammanfattning : An equitable distribution of the tax burden is a fundamental value in the justification of the tax law. The concrete application of theoretical principles for an equitable distribution of the tax burden takes place in tax legislation through applying principles of law of the ethical and social policy categories. LÄS MER