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Table 4 Health efficiency DEA models

From: Technical efficiency of provincial public healthcare in South Africa

Models

DEA model

Number of variables

Variable description

Health model 1

CRS

2

Total health expenditure and infant mortality rate

Health model 1

CRS

2

Total health staff and infant mortality rate

Health model 1

CRS

3

Total health expenditure, total health staff and infant mortality rate

Health model 1

VRS

2

Total health expenditure and infant mortality rate

Health model 1

VRS

2

Total health staff and infant mortality rate

Health model 1

VRS

3

Total health expenditure, total health staff and infant mortality rate

  1. CRS constant returns to scale and VRS = Variable returns to scale