Mohsen Barooni; Ahmad Rahbar; Ali Abzareh; Hadi Hami Parsa
Volume 22, Issue 3 , May and June 2015, , Pages 238-245
Abstract
Background and purpose: Hospitals as the largest and most costly units in health care systems play a special role. The rate of their efficiency can be considered as a criterion for the measurement of performance and productivity of resource consumption in hospitals. The purpose of this study is to determine ...
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Background and purpose: Hospitals as the largest and most costly units in health care systems play a special role. The rate of their efficiency can be considered as a criterion for the measurement of performance and productivity of resource consumption in hospitals. The purpose of this study is to determine the technical efficiency of public hospitals of Qom University of medical sciences.
Materials and Methods: This study is a descriptive – analytic study. In this research, for determining the efficiency of Qom University of Medical sciences which includes six teaching hospitals and two public hospitals, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)method used. Data and relevant Statistics were collected from medical record ward of those hospitals and were processed by Deap2 software to achieve the objectives of the research.
Results: The average technical efficiency score in 2011 and 2012 was estimated 0.717 and 0.751. With regard to technical efficiency score in 2012,the efficiency score of one hospital was 1 and three hospitals were between 1 – 0.8 and four hospitals were less than 0.8 .But in 2011 one hospital had the efficiency score of 1 and two hospitals had between 1-0.8 and other hospitals had less than 0.8.
Conclusions: The studied hospitals for achieving the maximum efficiency should reduce the number of extra product factors from initial product factors to achieve desired efficiency level. Because in 2011 and 2012, with the efficiency of %71 and %75 of their resources, respectively, could achieve the same output level.
Mohsen Barooni; Parisa Mahdizadeh; Bagher Pahlevanzadeh; Noroddin Dopeikar; Sattar Rezaee; AliAkbar Sari
Volume 21, Issue 5 , September and October 2014, , Pages 778-785
Abstract
Background: The development supplementary insurance and the increasing of insurance coverage results to increase the level of health of society and helps to provide more services. The aim of this study was estimate price elasticity demand for supplementary insurance and effective factors on its use or ...
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Background: The development supplementary insurance and the increasing of insurance coverage results to increase the level of health of society and helps to provide more services. The aim of this study was estimate price elasticity demand for supplementary insurance and effective factors on its use or non-use, among board’s members and staffs of health faculty of Tehran University of medical sciences in 2011.
Methods: This was a descriptive analytic cross-sectional study. The data collection tool was a questionnaire. For data analysis from SPSS 20 version was used. Also, descriptive and inferential statistics such as average test and logistic regression were used.
Result: Price elasticity of demand for supplementary insurance was 0.53. Also, the results showed the cost of health care, education level and health status is a significant correlation with demand for supplementary health insurance.
Conclusion: Increasing quality of services and expanding package of suggested services such as dental services can be results to increase of demand for health insurances even if the premium is risen.