Measuring health indicators and allocating health resources: a DEA-based approach

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Chih-Ching Yang
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[1] Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology,Department of Marketing Management
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Health Care Management Science | 2017年 / 20卷
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Health indicator; Health resource allocation; Data envelopment analysis; Taiwan; 90B30 Production models; 90C05 Linear programming; 91B32 Resource and cost allocation; 91B82 Statistical methods, economic indices and measures;
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This paper suggests new empirical DEA models for the measurement of health indicators and the allocation of health resources. The proposed models were developed by first suggesting a population-based health indicator. By introducing the suggested indicator into DEA models, a new approach that solves the problem of health resource allocation has been developed. The proposed models are applied to an empirical study of Taiwan’s health system. Empirical findings show that the suggested indicator can successfully accommodate the differences in health resource demands between populations, providing more reliable performance information than traditional indicators such as physician density. Using our models and a commonly used allocation mechanism, capitation, to allocate medical expenditures, it is found that the proposed model always obtains higher performance than those derived from capitation, and the superiority increases as allocated expenditures rise.
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