Technical and scale efficiency of provincial health systems in China: a bootstrapping data envelopment analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

With escalating health expenditures and increasing health needs, improving health system performance has become imperative in China and internationally. The objective of this study is to examine the efficiency of China's health system and to understand the underlying causes of the variation in efficiency across provinces.

Setting

A system-wide perspective is adopted, focusing on performance in maternal health, child health and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the 31 provinces of mainland China during 2015.

Methods

Analyses were performed using bootstrapping data envelopment technique. Health outcomes were measured by infant survival rates, maternal survival rates and healthy life years calculated only considering NCDs. Health inputs were measured using he

SUBMITTER: Chai P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6686990 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature