Analysis and determination the efficiency of the European health systems.
The current economic crisis has increased the interest in analyzing the efficiency of health care systems, as their funding is a very important part of the budgets for different countries. In this work determines the efficiency in the health services in European countries applying data envelopment analysis. In addition, the combined application of data envelopment analysis methods and ACP can provide an evaluation of the efficiency with respect to differently oriented productive health systems in the different countries. The results show that models with a lower level of efficiency are those whose input is beds, followed by the models whose input is physicians. Finally, we apply the AD to select a few simple indicators that facilitate control of the level of operational efficiency of a health system.
Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Economía Financiera y Contabilidad, Campus de Espinardo, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
María
M
Del Rocío Moreno-Enguix
Economía Financiera y Contabilidad, Catholic University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
Juan Cándido
JC
Gómez-Gallego
Neurology, Catholic University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
María
M
Gómez Gallego
D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration
DEA-profit; efficiency; public health system