Frontiers in Health Services | Cost and Resource Allocation

Original Research

Accepted on 11 Aug 2025

Sustainable efficiency and operational pathways in public hospitals: An efficiency evaluation using three-stage DEA and fsQCA

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Jialing Li
Xuan Yuan
Li Luo
Ruqian Fei

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2025.1643677

129 views

Policy and Practice Reviews

Accepted on 06 Aug 2025

Medical Equipment in the Global South: Perspective of Sustainability and Donations

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Frederik Paustian
Rasmus Gøl
Hannah Wolfe Julsgart
Sofie Bjerre Degn
Andreas Philip Rosenbom
Anton Aaby Henriksen
Liselotte Højgaard

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2025.1638305

213 views

Systematic Review

Published on 28 Jul 2025

Cost-effectiveness of chemotherapy for advanced and recurrent cervical cancer: a systematic review

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Katsuaki Inami

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2025.1616223

644 views

Brief Research Report

Published on 08 Jul 2025

Comparison of Medicaid financing for birth centers: a nine-state policy analysis

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Rebecca H. Ofrane
Leslie Kantor
Julie Blumenfeld
Slawa Rokicki

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2025.1569462

490 views

Original Research

Published on 12 Jun 2025

Evaluating and enhancing the service capacity of secondary public hospitals in urban China: a multi-method empirical analysis based on Guangzhou (2019–2023)

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Baoling Wu
Wenbo Wu
Xi Wang
Weizhang Huang
Zhenni Luo
Jifeng Li

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2025.1621018

1,025 views

Opinion

Published on 30 May 2025

Towards a sustainable HIV response: strengthening Zimbabwe's domestic financing for HIV programs amid declining donor support

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Godfrey Musuka
Tatenda Makoni
Tafadzwa Dzinamarira

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2025.1558992

1,809 views

Original Research

Published on 27 May 2025

Does the fairness of healthcare resource allocation affect utilization efficiency?—an empirical study based on China's provincial panel data

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Anying Xu
Haibin Wei

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2025.1409421

996 views

Original Research

Published on 24 Apr 2025

Characteristics, health care utilization and cost of patients hospitalized with heart failure

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Hanna Winkler
Dorothee Riedlinger
Andrea Figura
Liane Schenk
Martin Möckel
Thomas Reinhold

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2025.1571367

893 views

Review

Published on 09 Apr 2025

A literature review of the healthcare resource use and productivity burden of X-linked hypophosphataemia

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Rafael Pinedo-Villanueva
Muhammad K. Javaid
Angela Williams
Isabelle Whittle
Matilde Franceschini
Ben Johnson

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2025.1285246

1,738 views

Review

Published on 07 Feb 2025

Approaches to implementing and financing primary health care in Kenya: a case of seven counties

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Janette Karimi
Salim Hussien
Elizabeth Wangia
Mercy-Irene Kimani
Mohamud Mohamed
Melissa Wanda
Rosemarie Muganda
Rachel Ndirangu
Daniel Mwai
Mercy Wanjala

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2025.1298379

4,682 views

Original Research

Published on 20 Jan 2025

Economic evaluation of a strategy to shorten the time to surgery with neuraxial anaesthesia compared with usual clinical practice in patients on chronic antiplatelet therapy with a proximal femur fracture

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Claudia Erika Delgado-Espinoza
Rosa Maria Antonijoan
Ignasi Gich
Rafael Anaya
Mireia Rodriguez
Angélica Millan
Jordi Llorca
Gemma Usua
Ana Ruiz
Angela Merchán-Galvis

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2024.1423975

1,183 views

Original Research

Published on 13 Jan 2025

Ultraviolet-C-based sanitization is a cost-effective option for hospitals to manage health care-associated infection risks from high touch mobile phones

in Cost and Resource Allocation

David C. Cook
Matthew Olsen
Oystein Tronstad
John F. Fraser
Adrian Goldsworthy
Rashed Alghafri
Simon J. McKirdy
Lotti Tajouri

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2024.1448913

1,778 views

Policy Brief

Published on 13 Jan 2025

Enhancing healthcare cost transparency: assessing implementation challenges, criticisms, and alternative solutions

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Sonia Ali Malik

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2024.1379416

2,421 views

Original Research

Published on 10 Sep 2024

Can “the expanded free maternity services” enable Kenya to achieve universal health coverage by 2030: qualitative study on experiences of mothers and healthcare providers

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Stephen Okumu Ombere

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2024.1325247

3,065 views
1 citation

Editorial

Published on 16 Aug 2024

Editorial: Global excellence in cost and resource allocation: Africa

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Olufunke A. Alaba
Goodness Aye

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2024.1446644

1,256 views

Original Research

Published on 29 Apr 2024

Impact of cash transfer programs on healthcare utilization and catastrophic health expenditures in rural Zambia: a cluster randomized controlled trial

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Amani Thomas Mori
Mweetwa Mudenda
Bjarne Robberstad
Kjell Arne Johansson
Linda Kampata
Patrick Musonda
Ingvild Sandoy

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2024.1254195

2,683 views