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J Med Syst
; 30(6): 473-81, 2006 Dec.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-17233160
RESUMO
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.