Measuring Productive Efficiency of the Iraqi Government Hospitals Using DEA

Ahmed Saadoon Alsamman, Thaeir

	Measuring Productive Efficiency of the Iraqi Government Hospitals Using DEA
Tikrit Journal For Administration & Economics Sciences
Article 1, Volume 12, Issue 35, 2016, Pages 39-60
Author
Thaeir Ahmed Saadoon Alsamman
Abstract
ABSTRACT This study aims to assess the performance of health services in Iraq, by measuring the relative efficiency of hospitals Iraqi using the DEA was using the number of doctors, number of beds and the number of nurses and staffs the health of others as an input to the system and the number of patients have fallen asleep and the reviewers and the number of deaths. As the output of the system. Were taken statistical community hospitals in Iraq's (239) Hospital and the number of public hospitals, 152 hospitals and specialized hospitals (87) Hospital and the number of family college in government hospitals (44470) bed and rate ranges distribution of these family on the population (1.3) beds per 1,000 people of the population and the bed occupancy ratewas57%. . The study found that the average relative efficiency of hospitals in the southern provinces (% 99.522) and the northern provinces are (98.873%), and this means that hospitals southern provinces should be able to provide the same level of output ((number of visits by auditors, a number of laboratory tests, the number of patients beneficiaries of radiography) using (99.5225%) of the input current) (number of doctors, number of nurses, the number of categories of medical assistance in order to be efficient., or in other words, it must reduce the input rate (0.4775%) with the current levels of services to provide the same If hospitals operate efficiently. If the goal is to maximize output while maintaining the same amount of input, it means that the hospitals in the provinces in order to reach the overall efficiency of 100 %. It is clear, according index of production efficiency of the public that the number of provinces with the overall efficiency ratio full terms of the efficiency of hospitals, is (16) conservative (18) province by (88.88%), and these provinces are: bureaucracy Basra, Missan, Diwaniya, Anbar, Babil, Karbala, Wasit, Dhi Qar, Almuthana, Najaf, Nineveh, Kirkuk, Salahaddin, Arbil, Dahuk, Sulaymaniya The number of provinces that have not achieved full efficiency in terms of the relative efficiency of the hospitals where, it Reached (2) province by (11.11%), which is on the order of worst to least bad( Baghdad, Diyala).Based on the results of the study the researcher recommends re-distribution of health resources in hospitals in order to optimize the investment of these resources.
Keywords
efficiency productive; data envelopments analysis; hospital

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