期刊
HEALTHCARE
卷 9, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/healthcare9101270
关键词
efficiency; data envelopment analysis; fuzzy data; health system; income inequality; freedom economics
This study evaluates the technical efficiency in European health system management using DEA and FDEA models, finding positive correlations between DEA and FDEA scores. Traditional DEA models are shown to overestimate efficiency scores, with the size of the bias positively related to income inequality and negatively related to economic freedom in the evaluated countries.
Many studies that assess efficiency in health systems are based on output mean values. That approach ignores the representativeness of the average statistic, which can become a serious problem in estimation. To solve this question, this research contributes in three different ways: the first aim is to evaluate the technical efficiency in the management of European health systems considering a set of DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) and FDEA (Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis) models. A second goal is to assess the bias in the estimation of efficiency when applying the conventional DEA. The third objective is the evaluation of the statistical relationship between the bias in the efficiency estimation and the macroeconomic variables (income inequality and economic freedom). The main results show positive correlations between DEA and FDEA scores. Notwithstanding traditional DEA models overestimate efficiency scores. Furthermore, the size of the bias is positively related to income inequality and negative with economic freedom in the countries evaluated.
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