The Influence of Government Health Expenditure on the Technical Efficiency of Rural Medical Institutions
10.7664/CHE20140715
- VernacularTitle:政府卫生投入对农村医疗机构技术效率的影响
- Author:
Ying LANG
;
Qingyue MENG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
governmental health expenditure budget;
data envelopment analysis;
technical efficiency
- From:
Chinese Health Economics
2014;(7):51-53
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
To discuss the influences of government health input on the efficiency of hospital operation. Methods:Taking 16 county-level hospitals in Ningxia as samples, using DEA and DEA-malmqutist indicator method to calculate the technical efficiency scores from 2000 to 2012, then analyze the compositions of technique efficiency(TE) , using Tobit regression to analyze the relationship between government budget health expenditure and medical institution efficiency. Results: The Ningxia governmental health budget expenditure is growing almost 3 times from 2000 to 2012 and the average TE is 0.82-0.94. In the 16 county-level hospitals, the TFP of 6 hospitals (37.5%) was less than 1, and the minimum was 0.82; while the TFP of 10 hospitals (62.5%) were more than 1, the max was 1.699. For the 6 hospitals of which TFP was less than 1, the reason for negative growth of TFP was contributed to the slow technique change, the pure efficiency or small scale. The regression result of TOBIT showed that the government health expenditure increases 1 000 units, the efficiency of medical institutions will increase 0.0031. Conclusion: The relationship between the governmental expenditure and medical institutions is positive, but the technical efficiency of medical institutions expenditure was the result of multiple factors.