Efficient management of health centres human resources in Zambia

Felix Masiye; Joses M. Kirigia; Ali Emrouznejad; Luis G. Sambo; Abdou Mounkaila; Davis Chimfwembe; David Okello

doi:10.1007/s10916-006-9032-1

Efficient management of health centres human resources in Zambia

Felix Masiye
, Joses M. Kirigia
, Ali Emrouznejad^*
, Luis G. Sambo
, Abdou Mounkaila
, Davis Chimfwembe
, David Okello

^*Corresponding author for this work

Operations and Service Management

University of Zambia
World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa
Ministry of Health
World Health Organization

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Abstract

This study uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate the degree of technical, allocative and cost efficiency in individual public and private health centres in Zambia; and to identify the relative inefficiencies in the use of various inputs among individual health centers. About 83% of the 40 health centres were technically inefficient; and 88% of them were both allocatively and cost inefficient. The privately owned health centers were found to be more efficient than public facilities. © 2006 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	473-481
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Medical Systems
Volume	30
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-006-9032-1
Publication status	Published - Dec 2006

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data envelopment analysis
health centers mangement
technical efficiency
Zambia health

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