Evaluating the decentralisation of the Spanish healthcare system: a data envelopment analysis approach.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aim of the study was to answer whether the central government has been more efficient than the regional governments or vice versa. Likewise, through the analysis of the data, the aim was to shed light on whether decentralisation has had a positive impact on the efficiency of the hospital sector or not.

Design

In this paper, we have used data envelopment analysis to analyse the evolution of efficiency in the last 10 Autonomous Regions to receive healthcare competences at the end of 2001.

Participants

For this study, we have taken into account the number of beds and full-time workers as inputs and the calculation of basic care units as outputs to measure the efficiency of the Spanish public sector, private sector and jointly in the years 2002, 2007, 2012

SUBMITTER: Armenteros-Ruiz T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10936466 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature