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Technical Efficiency and Productivity of Public Sector Hospitals in Three South African Provinces*

Year: 2001

Type: article

Abstract: HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS within Sub-Saharan African countries (SSA) are faced with increasingly scarce resources, which constrains their ability to extend health services of acceptable quality to the vast majority of their people.This severe shortage of health care resources is accounted for by a host of factors, the most important of which include poor macroeconomic performance, cutbacks in public spending, rapid population growth, the AIDS epidemic and the resurgence of diseases such as malaria.The constrained ability to adequately meet health care

Source: South African Journal of Economics

DOI: 10.1111/j.1813-6982.2001.tb00016.x

Authors: E Zere, Diane Mcintyre, T Addison

Institutions: University of Cape Town, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research

Language: English

Topic: Efficiency Analysis Using DEA

Subfield: Management Science and Operations Research

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: University of Cape Town