Assessing the efficiency of health systems in achieving the universal health coverage goal: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Universal health coverage (UHC) is a major pathway to save many people from catastrophic and impoverishing healthcare spending and address the inequality in health and healthcare. The objective of this paper is to assess the efficiency with which health systems in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are utilizing healthcare resources to progress towards achieving the UHC goal by 2030.

Methods

The study followed the guidelines proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank joint UHC monitoring framework and the computational operationalization approach proposed by Wagstaff et al. (2015) to estimate the UHC index for each of the 30 selected SSA countries. The bootstrapping output-oriented data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to estimate the bias-corrected te

SUBMITTER: Arhin K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10152035 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature