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RESUMO - Perante o atual contexto de contenção de gastos no sector da saúde e consequente
preocupação com a eficiência do sistema, tem-se assistido a mudanças várias no modelo de
gestão e organizacional do sistema de saúde. Destaca-se a criação de centros hospitalares
através de fusões administrativas, sem quaisquer alterações no número de estruturas físicas,
apresentando-se como argumentos primordiais o aproveitamento de sinergias e o uso
mais eficiente dos recursos disponíveis. Dada a importância desta modalidade organizativa
nos últimos anos, foi objetivo do presente estudo perceber os motivos subjacentes ao redimensionamento
hospitalar, bem como o seu o impacto nos ganhos de eficiência através do
aproveitamento de economias de escala, tendo por base a revisão da literatura. Pretendeu-se
ainda analisar as técnicas mais adequadas de avaliação da estrutura de custos dos hospitais,
bem como a sua eficiência. A literatura sugere a presença de economias de escala e de
diversificação por explorar, mas apenas as fusões entre hospitais de pequena dimensão e
de natureza semelhante podem beneficiar destes ganhos de escala.
ABSTRACT - Driven by the current pressure on resources induced by budgetary cuts, the Portuguese Ministry of Health is imposing changes in the management model and organization of NHS hospitals, including the creation of hospital centres as a result of administrative mergers of existing hospitals. According to the political discourse, one of the main goals expected from this measure is the creation of synergies and more efficiency in the use of available resources by adjusting their scale optimisation. Given this active policy of hospital merger, this study intends to describe the underlying reasons and the impact on efficiency gains, by looking at economies of scale namely through reductions in expenditures, based on the literature review. It was also sought to analyse the appropriate techniques to evaluate the hospitals’ efficiency and the cost structure. The literature suggests that there are economies of scale and scope to explore, but only mergers of relatively small and similar hospitals were successful.
ABSTRACT - Driven by the current pressure on resources induced by budgetary cuts, the Portuguese Ministry of Health is imposing changes in the management model and organization of NHS hospitals, including the creation of hospital centres as a result of administrative mergers of existing hospitals. According to the political discourse, one of the main goals expected from this measure is the creation of synergies and more efficiency in the use of available resources by adjusting their scale optimisation. Given this active policy of hospital merger, this study intends to describe the underlying reasons and the impact on efficiency gains, by looking at economies of scale namely through reductions in expenditures, based on the literature review. It was also sought to analyse the appropriate techniques to evaluate the hospitals’ efficiency and the cost structure. The literature suggests that there are economies of scale and scope to explore, but only mergers of relatively small and similar hospitals were successful.
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Economias de escala Economias de diversificação Análises de fronteira Função custo Fusões hospitalares Economies of scale Economies of scope Frontier analysis Cost function model Hospital mergers
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Azevedo, Helda; Mateus, Céu - Economias de escala e de diversificação : uma análise da bibliografia no contexto das fusões hospitalares = Economies of scale and scope : a literature review in the context of hospital mergers. Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Pública. ISSN 0870-9025. Vol. 32, Nº 1 (Janeiro/Junho 2014), 106-117
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública
