Specyfika szacowania efektywności organizacji publicznych na przykładzie oceny funkcjonowania systemów opieki zdrowotnej

The aim of the paper is to discuss crucial methodological and conceptual issues in an estimation of national health care systems efficiency. The paper consists of following parts: introduction; interpretation of efficiency in health care context; practical issues in efficiency model building; inputs and outputs selection in production process; and summary. In the appendix, the example of efficiency model with use of the data envelopment analysis method is presented.