Volume 17, Issue 2, August 2015, Pages 278–289
Mekdem Majdi1
1 University of Sousse, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Sousse, Tunisia
Original language: English
Copyright © 2015 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This paper aims to study the degree of efficiency of health systems in the countries of the two shores of the Mediterranean. We analyze the classification of these countries to identify particularly efficient and inefficient groups of countries. From the point of view of method, we use the estimation method (DEA). We also use a combination of inputs and outputs. In our model, we use as outputs, life expectancy at birth, survival of children under five years and adult survival rates as inputs, we chose health spending $ current, Adult literacy rates. We rely on the input orientation approach to variable returns to scale. The efficiency scores were calculated using the DEAP software (Coelli, 1996). The average efficiencies of scores (NRP) in 2010 is equal to 0.934.
Author Keywords: health, efficiency, DEA, life expectancy, health expenditure, input orientation, variable returns to scale.
Mekdem Majdi1
1 University of Sousse, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Sousse, Tunisia
Original language: English
Copyright © 2015 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This paper aims to study the degree of efficiency of health systems in the countries of the two shores of the Mediterranean. We analyze the classification of these countries to identify particularly efficient and inefficient groups of countries. From the point of view of method, we use the estimation method (DEA). We also use a combination of inputs and outputs. In our model, we use as outputs, life expectancy at birth, survival of children under five years and adult survival rates as inputs, we chose health spending $ current, Adult literacy rates. We rely on the input orientation approach to variable returns to scale. The efficiency scores were calculated using the DEAP software (Coelli, 1996). The average efficiencies of scores (NRP) in 2010 is equal to 0.934.
Author Keywords: health, efficiency, DEA, life expectancy, health expenditure, input orientation, variable returns to scale.
How to Cite this Article
Mekdem Majdi, “Efficiency of Health Systems in Countries of the North and South Shores of the Mediterranean,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 278–289, August 2015.
