Data Envelopment Analysis of Public Health Facilities in Province of Punjab, Pakistan
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The performance analysis in health care system plays an important role to measure efficiency of the emerging needs of health care system. Thus it is inevitable to implement health system reforms and devising assessments. This study focus on the finding the current level of technical efficiency with and without quality factors of public health facilities of all districts in province Punjab of Pakistan through the most widely accepted data envelopment analysis (DEA), a method which incorporates the combination of multiple inputs with multiple outputs. The input variables for this study are taken as number of beds, number of doctors, number of nurses and percentage of stock medicine. The quantitative output variables are number of OPD visits per day, mortality rate and number of pregnant women with obstetric complications treated in a public health facility. Practically all the public health facilities in Punjab have deficient or low-quality framework. The derivation from this review might be useful for strategy creators to detail and execute arrangements which help the clinics of Punjab to perform better through working on their proficiency.
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