Objective The aim of the study was to measure technical and scale efficiency of public health
centers in three districts of Jimma zone, Ethiopia. A two-stage data envelopment analysis …

Abstract Background The Government of Ghana has been implementing various health
sector reforms (eg user fees in public health facilities, decentralization, sector-wide …

Background Effective health care provision benefits from the support of measurement
techniques. Contrary to the situation in industrialised countries efficiency analyses in the …

Methods The study used Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method, to calculate the
technical and allocative efficiency of 113 randomly sampled health centres. A logistic …

This study is conducted with specific objectives: a) To measure the technical and scale
efficiency of the health centers in the Gambia; b) To estimate the amounts of output …

Abstract 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 …

Aim This study aimed to measure the healthcare system efficiency of 36 African countries
and to compare efficiency levels between countries. Method Data envelopment analysis …

Background Since 2004, the government of Ethiopia has made a bold decision to strengthen
and expand its primary health care system by launching the Health Extension Program …

This study examines the relative technical efficiency of 12 hospitals in Eastern Ethiopia.
Using six-year-round panel data for the period between 2007/08 and 2012/13, this study …

The objectives of the study reported in this paper were to (i) estimate the technical efficiency
of samples of community health centres (CHCs), community health posts (CHPs) and …