Ownership and technical efficiency of hospitals: evidence from Ghana using data envelopment analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In order to measure and analyse the technical efficiency of district hospitals in Ghana, the specific objectives of this study were to (a) estimate the relative technical and scale efficiency of government, mission, private and quasi-government district hospitals in Ghana in 2005; (b) estimate the magnitudes of output increases and/or input reductions that would have been required to make relatively inefficient hospitals more efficient; and (c) use Tobit regression analysis to estimate the impact of ownership on hospital efficiency.

Methods

In the first stage, we used data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate the efficiency of 128 hospitals comprising of 73 government hospitals, 42 mission hospitals, 7 quasi-government hospitals and 6 private hospitals. In the s

SUBMITTER: Jehu-Appiah C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4108084 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature