Analysis on China's Health Production Efficiency Based on International Comparison / 中国卫生经济

ABSTRACT

Objective:To obtain the health production efficiency performance and its changing trend of China's health system in recent years by adopting international comparison,and to provide policy recommendations to improve health production efficiency.Methods:It described the relative efficiency of health system in China by reporting the international ranking of health inputs and outputs indicators.It employed total health expenditure per capita as input indicator and health outcomes as output indicators to construct frontier health production function,China's health production function and marginal health production function based on data envelopment analysis and production function method.Results:In the past decade,compared to efficient countries with similar health development level,the efficiency performance of China's health system was between 65％ and 73％.With the increasing trend of health investment,China's marginal health output had been declined and tended to be gentle.Conclusion:The current health production efficiency in China was relatively high.However,how to improve the efficiency and marginal health output was the focus of future health system reform under the background of rapid growth of total health expenditure.