Efficiency of private and public primary health facilities accredited by the National Health Insurance Authority in Ghana

Table 2 Human and material resources in health facilities

Input and output variables	Efficiency score			Facility ownership^a			Total
	1.0 (n = 20)	<1.0 (n = 44)	p value	Private (n = 38)	Public (n = 26)	p-value	Mean (SD)
	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	p value	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	p-value	Mean (SD)
Input variables
Number of clinical staff	11(7)	19 (16)	0.0509	14 (13)	19 (15)	0.2256	16 (14)
Number of support staff	4 (4)	9 (11)	0.0426*	8 (11)	7 (6)	0.7297	8 (9)
Number of beds	9 (8)	11 (11)	0.4011	12 (11)	8 (8)	0.1327	11 (10)
Number of wards	2 (1)	2 (1)	0.3320	2 (1)	1 (1)	0.0332*	2 (1)
Number of consulting rooms	1 (0.3)	2 (1)	0.0177*	2 (1)	1 (1)	0.4312	1 (1)
Output variables (per month)
Number of deliveries	17 (20)	11 (15)	0.1819	9 (15)	19 (17)	0.0115*	13 (16)
Number of OPD visits	1197 (732)	927 (805)	0.2054	1047 (868)	958 (665)	0.6583	1011 (787)
Number of ANC/PNC visits	677 (956)	437 (567)	0.2138	317 (657)	798 (705)	0.0069*	512
Number of FP and RCH visits	321 (480)	156 (273)	0.0841	56 (129)	429 (456)	0.0000*	208 (355)

WOTRO-COHEiSION Ghana Project (Health Facility Survey Data: March–June, 2012)
FP family planning, RCH reproductive and child health, OPD Out-patient department, ANC antenatal care; PNC postnatal care
* Two tail test of hypothesis statistically significant at 95 % confidence level using the Student t test
^aOwnership is dichotomized for the t test where government and quasi-government facilities are classified under “public” and private-for-profit and Mission/NGO health facilities classified under “private”

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