Level and determinants of county health system technical efficiency in Kenya: two stage data envelopment analysis.
Edwine W BarasaAnita MusiegaKara HansonLizah NyawiraAndrew MulwaSassy MolyneuxIsabel MainaBenjamin TsofaCharles NormandJulie JemutaiPublished in: Cost effectiveness and resource allocation : C/E (2021)
The findings from this analysis highlight the need for county health departments to consider ways to improve the efficiency of county health systems. Approaches could include prioritizing resources to interventions that will reduce high chronic disease burden, filling structural quality gaps, implementing interventions to improve process quality, identifying the challenges to absorption rates and reforming public finance management systems to enhance their efficiency.