Masiye, F., J. M. Kirigia, et al. (2006). “Efficient management of health centres human resources in Zambia.” Journal of Medical Systems 30(6): 473-481.

Masiye, F., J. M. Kirigia, et al. (2006). “Efficient management of health centres human resources in Zambia.” Journal of Medical Systems 30(6): 473-481.

This study uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate the degree of technical, allocative and cost efficiency in individual public and private health centres in Zambia; and to identify the relative inefficiencies in the use of various inputs among individual health centers. About 83% of the 40 health centres were technically inefficient; and 88% of them were both allocatively and cost inefficient. The privately owned health centers were found to be more efficient than public facilities.