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Efficient Management of Health Centres Human Resources in Zambia
Felix Masiye,Joses Muthuri Kirigia,Ali Emrouznejad,Luis G Sambo,Abdou Mounkaila,Davis Chimfwembe,David Okello +6 more
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The privately owned health centers were found to be more efficient than public facilities and the public facilities were both allocatively and cost inefficient.Abstract:
This study uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate the degree of technical, allocative and cost efficiency in individual public and private health centres in Zambia; and to identify the relative inefficiencies in the use of various inputs among individual health centers. About 83% of the 40 health centres were technically inefficient; and 88% of them were both allocatively and cost inefficient. The privately owned health centers were found to be more efficient than public facilities.read more
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The use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in healthcare with a focus on hospitals.
Sebastian Kohl,Sebastian Kohl,Jan Schoenfelder,Jan Schoenfelder,Andreas Fügener,Jens O. Brunner,Jens O. Brunner +6 more
TL;DR: This paper reviews 262 papers of DEA applications in healthcare with special focus on hospitals and closes a gap of over ten years that were not covered by existing review articles, and is the first to examine the research purposes of the publications.
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Social and financial efficiency of Islamic microfinance institutions:a Data Envelopment Analysis application
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A Performance Assessment Method for Hospitals: The Case of Municipal Hospitals in Angola
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Technical and scale efficiency of public community hospitals in Eritrea: an exploratory study
TL;DR: This study shows that routinely collected hospital data in Eritrea can be used to identify relatively inefficient hospitals as well as the sources of their inefficiencies.
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