The Government Expenditure Efficiency in OECD Countries with DEA Approach
The Government Expenditure Efficiency in OECD Countries with DEA Approach

Author(s): Jakub Sopko, Beata Gavurova, Kristína Kočišová
Subject(s): Economic policy, Government/Political systems, Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: health expenditure; life expectancy; infant survival rate; physicians´ density; impatient bed density; Data Envelopment Analysis;
Summary/Abstract: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is one of the methods to measure efficiency in the service sector. DEA searches individual scales for each production unit. In the presence of different input and output factors, efficiency is perceived as the ratio of the weighted sum of outputs to the weighted sum of inputs. The aim of our paper is to analyze efficiency in the health care sector using DEA models. In several OECD countries, it is possible to point to the ineffectiveness of public spending on health care. We use the basic health characteristics of the population as well as the basic macro indicators from the point of view of health financing in OECD countries. The paper shows on the impact of individual indicators on the level of efficiency in the health sector.

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