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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-26119| Publication type: | Working paper – expertise – study |
| Title: | Environmental efficiency analysis of Swiss acute care hospitals |
| Authors: | Roth, Florian Merki, Manuela Keller, Regula |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.2139/ssrn.3939627 10.21256/zhaw-26119 |
| Extent: | 28 |
| Issue Date: | 22-Nov-2021 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | SSRN |
| ISSN: | 1556-5068 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Environmental impact; Hospital; Swiss health care; Swiss hospital; Data envelopment analysis; Global warming potential; Efficiency analysis; Stochastic frontier analysis; Eco efficiency |
| Subject (DDC): | 338.927: Environmental economics and sustainable development 362.11: Hospitals and related institutions |
| Abstract: | Using a novel set of Global Warming Potential (GWP) data for hospitals in Switzerland, we estimate the environmental efficiency by stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis for the hospitals overall and 14 specific hospital areas. We find median efficiency of hospitals of at most 53.4 percent. The improvement potential for the Swiss acute care hospitals is estimated to be 136’669 t CO2-eq based on a GWP weighted mean environmental efficiency of 69.3 over all hospitals. The areas with the highest potential are heating and electricity: a one percent increase in efficiency would reduce overall GWP by 0.60 and 0.58 percent, respectively. |
| Further description: | Supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) within the framework of the National Research Program “Sustainable Economy: resource-friendly, future-oriented, innovative” (NRP 73) Grant-N◦ 407340_ 172453. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/26119 |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Life Sciences and Facility Management |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR) |
| Published as part of the ZHAW project: | Green Hospital |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Life Sciences und Facility Management |
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Roth, F., Merki, M., & Keller, R. (2021). Environmental efficiency analysis of Swiss acute care hospitals. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3939627
Roth, F., Merki, M. and Keller, R. (2021) Environmental efficiency analysis of Swiss acute care hospitals. SSRN. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3939627.
F. Roth, M. Merki, and R. Keller, “Environmental efficiency analysis of Swiss acute care hospitals,” SSRN, Nov. 2021. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3939627.
ROTH, Florian, Manuela MERKI und Regula KELLER, 2021. Environmental efficiency analysis of Swiss acute care hospitals. SSRN
Roth, Florian, Manuela Merki, and Regula Keller. 2021. “Environmental Efficiency Analysis of Swiss Acute Care Hospitals.” SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3939627.
Roth, Florian, et al. Environmental Efficiency Analysis of Swiss Acute Care Hospitals. SSRN, 22 Nov. 2021, https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3939627.
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