[PDF] Top 20 Using data envelopment analysis to measure the extent of technical efficiency of public health centres in Ghana

... measuring efficiency in economics (including health economics) has been the production frontier approach based on the prin- ciples of statistics and econometrics ...determine efficiency, are also ... See full document

... index, efficiency change component composition, calculated relative to constant returns to scale technology into pure efficiency component (calculated relative to the variable returns to scale (VRS) ... See full document

... across health posts and health ...inefficient health posts is higher than the health centers, ...average, health posts could have saved 58% of their inputs without altering the existing ... See full document

... greater efficiency. For this reason, accurate measurement of efficiency is essential, so in this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis to ... See full document

... of health centers were technically inefficient. Though, technical inefficiency is widely prevalent according to studies con- ducted in some of sub-Saharan African countries, the finding of this study is a ... See full document

... and Ghana) several studies were carried out in assessing the effi- ciency of healthcare facilities by using data envelopment analysis (DEA) ...in health systems of Bangladesh as ... See full document

... of health programmes to uplift the health scenario and status of these segments of its ...child health (RCH) programme is one of the important health schemes of the ...quality health ... See full document

... and Ghana) several studies were carried out in assessing the effi- ciency of healthcare facilities by using data envelopment analysis (DEA) ...in health systems of Bangladesh as ... See full document

... and health centres turn inputs (factors of production) into outputs (health ...skilled health personnel (doctors, nurses, para- medics, support staff) and unskilled workers (drivers, watchmen, ... See full document

... Basic health is the prime concern of development and in Pakistan BHUs are the health service providers at primary ...in public services delivery health also should accountable for the services ... See full document

... the efficiency; however with approved seed and proper irrigation of fields using multiple inlets produced higher efficiency scores relative to others Sohail, Latif, Abbas, and Shahid (2012) and ... See full document

... output using 46% of the input actually used. Using the three- stage DEA approach, we find that the three-stage DEA efficiency scores ...DEA technical efficiency is ...the ... See full document

... Global health system performance is estimated based on a five inputs and two outputs ...bal health expenditures per capita in 2014), and these countries were chosen based on the availability of rele- vant ... See full document

... for public schools. There may exist distinct PNAE public calls for each ...these public calls may be limited by their scarce ...decision. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is ... See full document

... the efficiency/performance of the banking sector in Vietnam over the ...the data of Vietnamese banks (it is always difficult to get any data from any financial institutions because these data ... See full document

... Total technical efficiency ТЕCRS was lowest in the group of RDPDI and this was due, as we already noted, to the lower efficiency of scale i.e., the size of treatment facilities in this g[r] ... See full document

... Buttler [20] classifies hospital output into four broad cat- egories: inpatient treatment, outpatient treatment, teach- ing and research. Measuring hospital output by such variables as inpatient days or outpatient ... See full document

... negative data in the SBM models, its applicability to real world problems is not really ...eciency measure of ...the measure of relative eciency than those with small ... See full document

... bank efficiency using the DEA window analysis, by which the efficiency is analyzed sequentially with a defining window ...periods) using a panel data of sample ...bank ... See full document

... of efficiency is ...of efficiency, with DMU in, or near, the cities more efficient than those in more remote ...organizational efficiency, with the hotels near more populated zones attracting more ... See full document