WHO EMRO | Health production and determinants of health systems performance in WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region

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  • Abolghasem Pourreza
  • Vahid Alipour
  • Jalal Arabloo
  • Mohsen Bayati
  • Bahman Ahadinezhad
چکیده

This descriptive–analytical study used data envelopment analysis to evaluated the technical efficiency (TE) of health systems in Member States of the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region during 2004–2011. Life expectancy and infant mortality were used as outputs. Per capita total expenditure on health, and number of physicians, nurses and midwives and hospital beds per 1000 people were used as inputs. The determinants of TE of the health systems were examined using a regression model. United Arab Emirates and Somalia had the most efficient health systems with a TE score of 1. Djibouti and Libya had the most inefficient health systems, with TE scores of 0.346 and 0.435, respectively. The most

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تاریخ انتشار 2017