title: Efficient management of health centres human resources in Zambia.
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 in Zambia; and to identify the relative inefficiencies in the use of various inputs among individual health centers. About 83% of the 40 health centres were technically inefficient; and 88% of them were both allocatively and cost inefficient. The privately owned health centers were found to be more efficient than public facilities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics, University of Zambia, Zambia.
authors.forename: Felix
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Masiye
authors.forename: Joses M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Kirigia
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Emrouznejad
authors.forename: Luis G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Sambo
authors.forename: Abdou
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mounkaila
authors.forename: Davis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chimfwembe
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Okello
mesh_terms: D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006280:Health Workforce / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D015024:Zambia