Public Health System Economic Efficiency and COVID-19 Resilience: Frontier DEA Analysis

Aleksandra Kuzior (), Mariia Kashcha, Olha Kuzmenko, Serhiy Lyeonov and Paulina Brożek
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Aleksandra Kuzior: Department of Applied Social Sciences, Faculty of Organization and Management, Silesian University of Technology, 41-800 Zabrze, Poland
Mariia Kashcha: Economic Cybernetics Department, Sumy State University, 40000 Sumy, Ukraine
Olha Kuzmenko: Economic Cybernetics Department, Sumy State University, 40000 Sumy, Ukraine
Serhiy Lyeonov: Economic Cybernetics Department, Sumy State University, 40000 Sumy, Ukraine
Paulina Brożek: JSofteris, 41-219 Sosnowiec, Poland

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 22, 1-14

Abstract: The article summarizes the arguments and counterarguments in the scholarly discussion about the problem of choosing a model of healthcare organization. The study’s primary goal was to identify the economic efficiency of the public health system and resistance to COVID-19. The relevance of addressing this research issue is that the epidemiological challenges posed by the pandemic worldwide have manifested themselves differently in various countries. Therefore, it is advisable to consider the effectiveness of public healthcare models and how they have worked out in the fight against COVID-19. Research in the work was carried out in the following logical sequence: conducting scientometric analysis of research, creation of a statistical research base for 22 countries of the world; construction of integral indices of the economic efficiency of the health care system; calculation of public health system resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic; application of frontier DEA analysis to determine system efficiency; comparison and analysis of the results of research on the economic efficiency of public health systems obtained by different methods. The article presents the results of a comparison of the economic efficiency of the public health system, which showed that the system built according to the Beveridge principle is the most resistant to the pandemic and, at the same time, has the highest indices of economic efficiency.

Keywords: frontier DEA analysis; health system; efficiency; CCR model; COVID-19 pandemic; human; infectious diseases; public health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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