Evaluation of the Efficiency in Public Health Centers in Greece Regarding the Human Resources Occupied: A Bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis Application

Anastasios Trakakis, Miltiadis Nektarios, Styliani Tziaferi and Panagiotis Prezerakos
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Anastasios Trakakis: Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, University of Peloponnese, 22100 Tripoli, Greece
Miltiadis Nektarios: Faculty of Finance and Statistics, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus, 18534 Athens, Greece
Styliani Tziaferi: Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, University of Peloponnese, 22100 Tripoli, Greece
Panagiotis Prezerakos: Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, University of Peloponnese, 22100 Tripoli, Greece

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 3, 1-13

Abstract: In this paper, the overall efficiency of health centers in Greece is measured by applying the input-oriented model of Data Envelopment Analysis. In addition, four different models were subjected to the input-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis to investigate the contribution of each category of human resources to the efficiency results of the health centers. The bootstrap technique was performed to generate confidence intervals for the models. Data for 155 health centers in Greece were provided by the Ministry of Health. The health centers submitted in the analysis obtained an average efficiency value of 0.932. The average results of the partial models in terms of each input show that the efficiency values achieved by the health centers are mostly influenced by the number of physicians and the number of managers employed. The second factor influencing the efficiency values of the health centers are the number of nursing staff occupied in the health centers. Non-medical staff employed in the health centers had the least contribution to the efficiencies measured. This paper provides important information for the stakeholders and the Government of Greece so as to better allocate the personnel employed in primary health care according to the efficiencies attained by the health centers.

Keywords: health center’s efficiency; human resources; data envelopment analysis; bootstrap; internal validity; primary health care (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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