Evaluating the efficiency of primary health care institutions in China: an improved three-stage data envelopment analysis approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Primary health care (PHC) institutions are key to realizing the main functions of the health care system. Since the new health care reform in 2009, the Chinese government has invested heavily in PHC institutions and launched favorable initiatives to improve the efficiency of such institutions. This study is designed to gauge the efficiency of PHC institutions by using 2012-2020 panel data covering 31 provinces in China.

Methods

This study applied an improved three-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to evaluate the efficiency of PHC institutions in China. Unlike the traditional three-stage DEA model, the input-oriented global super-efficiency slack-based measurement (SBM) DEA model is used to calculate the efficiency in the first and third stages of the im

SUBMITTER: Su W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10503195 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature