Efficient management of health centres human resources in Zambia

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

Efficient management of health centres human resources in Zambia

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

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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 and to identify the relative inefficiencies in the use of various inputs among individual health centres. About 83% of the 40 health centres were technically inefficient and 88% of them were both allocatively and cost inefficient. The privately owned health centres were found to be more efficient than public facilities. There is need to undertake these kind of studies among all health facilities (irrespective of proprietorship) in the WHO African Region countries to guide health sector reforms.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Efficiency of Health System Units in Africa
Subtitle of host publication	A Data Envelopment Analysis
Pages	267-289
Number of pages	23
ISBN (Electronic)	9789966792426
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2013

Keywords

Data envelopment analysis
Health centres management
Technical efficiency
Zambia Health

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