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Using data envelopment analysis to measure the extent of technical efficiency of public health centres in Ghana
BACKGROUND: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been used to analyze the efficiency of the health sector in the developed world for sometime now. However, in developing economies and particularly in Africa only a few studies have applied DEA in measuring the efficiency of their health care systems....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605432/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19021906 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-698X-8-11 |
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author | Akazili, James Adjuik, Martin Jehu-Appiah, Caroline Zere, Eyob |
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description | BACKGROUND: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been used to analyze the efficiency of the health sector in the developed world for sometime now. However, in developing economies and particularly in Africa only a few studies have applied DEA in measuring the efficiency of their health care systems. METHODS: This study uses the DEA method, to calculate the technical efficiency of 89 randomly sampled health centers in Ghana. The aim was to determine the degree of efficiency of health centers and recommend performance targets for the inefficient facilities. RESULTS: The findings showed that 65% of health centers were technically inefficient and so were using resources that they did not actually need. CONCLUSION: The results broadly point to grave inefficiency in the health care delivery system of public health centers and that significant amounts of resources could be saved if measures were put in place to curb the waste. |
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spelling | pubmed-26054322008-12-19 Using data envelopment analysis to measure the extent of technical efficiency of public health centres in Ghana Akazili, James Adjuik, Martin Jehu-Appiah, Caroline Zere, Eyob BMC Int Health Hum Rights Research Article BACKGROUND: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been used to analyze the efficiency of the health sector in the developed world for sometime now. However, in developing economies and particularly in Africa only a few studies have applied DEA in measuring the efficiency of their health care systems. METHODS: This study uses the DEA method, to calculate the technical efficiency of 89 randomly sampled health centers in Ghana. The aim was to determine the degree of efficiency of health centers and recommend performance targets for the inefficient facilities. RESULTS: The findings showed that 65% of health centers were technically inefficient and so were using resources that they did not actually need. CONCLUSION: The results broadly point to grave inefficiency in the health care delivery system of public health centers and that significant amounts of resources could be saved if measures were put in place to curb the waste. BioMed Central 2008-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2605432/ /pubmed/19021906 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-698X-8-11 Text en Copyright © 2008 Akazili et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Akazili, James Adjuik, Martin Jehu-Appiah, Caroline Zere, Eyob Using data envelopment analysis to measure the extent of technical efficiency of public health centres in Ghana |
title | Using data envelopment analysis to measure the extent of technical efficiency of public health centres in Ghana |
title_full | Using data envelopment analysis to measure the extent of technical efficiency of public health centres in Ghana |
title_fullStr | Using data envelopment analysis to measure the extent of technical efficiency of public health centres in Ghana |
title_full_unstemmed | Using data envelopment analysis to measure the extent of technical efficiency of public health centres in Ghana |
title_short | Using data envelopment analysis to measure the extent of technical efficiency of public health centres in Ghana |
title_sort | using data envelopment analysis to measure the extent of technical efficiency of public health centres in ghana |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605432/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19021906 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-698X-8-11 |
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