Assessing the efficiency of rural health centres in Burkina Faso: an application of Data Envelopment Analysis

Abstract: Background: Effective health care provision benefits from the support of measurement techniques. Contrary to the situation in industrialised countries efficiency analyses in the health care sector in Africa are a very recent phenomenon. Hardly any of the existing studies was conducted at the level of primary care. Aim: The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to evaluate the relative efficiency of health centres in rural Burkina Faso and (2) to investigate reasons for inefficient performance. Methods: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was applied. To account for the situation in that country, the output-oriented approach was used in connection with different returns to scale assumptions. To identify the spatial effect of the catchment area on efficiency the Tobit model was applied. Results: According to constant returns to scale, 14 health centres were relatively efficient. The DEA projections suggest that the inefficient units were too big to be efficient. Tobit regression showed

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Journal of Public Health ; 17 (2008) 2 ; 87-95

Klassifikation
Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2008
Urheber
Marschall, Paul
Flessa, Steffen

DOI
10.1007/s10389-008-0225-6
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-124407
Rechteinformation
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Beteiligte

  • Marschall, Paul
  • Flessa, Steffen

Entstanden

  • 2008

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