In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …
Background Hospitals represent a significant proportion of health expenditures in Uganda, accounting for about 26% of total health expenditure. Improving the technical efficiency of …
V Ngobeni, MC Breitenbach, GC Aye - Cost Effectiveness and Resource …, 2020 - Springer
Background Forty-nine million people or 83 per cent of the entire population of 59 million rely on the public healthcare system in South Africa. Coupled with a shortage of medical …
C Jehu-Appiah, S Sekidde, M Adjuik, J Akazili… - Cost Effectiveness and …, 2014 - Springer
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 …
MC Breitenbach, V Ngobeni, GC Aye - Frontiers in public health, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The scale of impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on society and the economy globally provides a strong incentive to thoroughly analyze the efficiency of healthcare systems in …
Background Providing health care services in Africa is hampered by severe scarcity of personnel, medical supplies and financial funds. Consequently, managers of health care …
M Ali, M Debela, T Bamud - Health economics review, 2017 - Springer
This study examines the relative technical efficiency of 12 hospitals in Eastern Ethiopia. Using six-year-round panel data for the period between 2007/08 and 2012/13, this study …
In this study, the classical CCR-IO DEA model (an input-oriented form of the DEA model of Charnes, Cooper, and Rhodes [24] is extended to an intuitionistic fuzzy environment. For …