Efficiency Analysis of Local Government Health Service in West Sumatra Province Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

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10.2991/icebef-18.2019.164How to use a DOI?

Keywords

benchmark; health decentralization; efficiency; health resources

Abstract

Health services in Indonesia are still constrained by the low performance seen in the HDI rating of 121 out of 186 countries. Based on HDI, West Sumatra is ranked 9th at the national level, but there are still considerable differences between regions. Since decentralization of health has been introduced, disparities among regions have been sharpened due to the different health resources of each region. This study aims to analyze the efficiency of health services of all district / city governments in West Sumatra. Data analysis using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The results showed that the level of efficiency of inter-regional health services in West Sumatra province is classified as 60%.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Gesit Thabrani
AU  - Muhammad Irfan
AU  - Hendri Andi Mesta
AU  - Lidyana Arifah
PY  - 2019/05
DA  - 2019/05
TI  - Efficiency Analysis of Local Government Health Service in West Sumatra Province Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Economics, Business, Entrepreneurship, and Finance (ICEBEF 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 783
EP  - 789
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icebef-18.2019.164
DO  - 10.2991/icebef-18.2019.164
ID  - Thabrani2019/05
ER  -