Measuring the Efficiency of Chilean Primary Healthcare Centres:

International Journal of Engineering Business Management

MarthaRamírez-Valdivia¹ 

关键词: DEA;    SFA;    Efficiency;    Primary healthcare;   

DOI  :  10.5772/60839

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

This paper examines whether different approaches for estimating the technical efficiency of a primary healthcare centre —PHC— can have significantly different results. Although effective regulation demands the development of measures for establishing good operation levels, few studies have compared results from a data envelopment analysis —DEA— and stochastic frontier analysis —SFA—in a PHC. Furthermore, to the best of our knowledge, no studies have used Chilean nationwide data. Efficiency refers to the relation between the number of output units per input unit. Effectiveness evaluates the outcome of medical care and can be influenced by efficiency.

【 授权许可】

CC BY