Assessing the efficiency of rural health centres in Burkina Faso: An application of Data Envelopment Analysis

Journal of Public Health

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 87-95

  Marschall, Paul ^a   Flessa, Steffen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burkina Faso; DEA; Efficiency; Nouna; Primary care

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BURKINA FASO; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODEL; PRODUCTIVITY; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 59849095725     PISSN: 09431853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10389-008-0225-6     Document Type: Article

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