Testing efficiency in the health sector: a case of Uganda's health centre IVs
| dc.contributor.author | Masele, Juma James | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-21T16:41:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-02-21T16:41:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-03-29 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper examined the technical efficiency and scale efficiency of health centre IVs in Uganda. Using data from the Annual Health sector performance report for the financial year 2019-2020 and Health Sector Grant and Budget Guidelines to Local Governments report 2019-2020, the technical efficiency, scale efficiency and projections of the quantities of health centre input and outputs needed to make inefficient health centres efficient were determined. An output-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with Variable Returns to Scale (VRS) was used to analyse the data for pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency for a sample of 28 health centre IVs. It was revealed that 14 (50%) health centre IVs were VRS technically inefficient while 15 (54%) were scale inefficient. The average pure technical efficiency score of 92% implied that the health centres are in position to increase their output levels by 8% with the same amount of inputs (beds and annual budget allocation). | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Warren, T., Masele, J.J. & Magova, G.B. (2022).Testing efficiency in the health sector: a case of Uganda's health centre IVs,Inderscience Publishers (IEL) , 8 (1-2),84-103. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBHR.2022.122007 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/6005 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Inderscience Publishers (IEL) | en_US |
| dc.subject | data envelopment analysis, health centre IV, technical efficiency, scale efficiency, Uganda | en_US |
| dc.subject | data envelopment analysis, health centre IV, technical efficiency, scale efficiency, Uganda | en_US |
| dc.title | Testing efficiency in the health sector: a case of Uganda's health centre IVs | en_US |
| dc.type | Journal Article, Peer Reviewed | en_US |