A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HEALTH UNITS OF THE 6TH GREEK HEALTH REGION DURING AN ECONOMIC CRISIS PERIOD THROUGH DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS METHOD Cover Image

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HEALTH UNITS OF THE 6TH GREEK HEALTH REGION DURING AN ECONOMIC CRISIS PERIOD THROUGH DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS METHOD
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HEALTH UNITS OF THE 6TH GREEK HEALTH REGION DURING AN ECONOMIC CRISIS PERIOD THROUGH DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS METHOD

Author(s): Georgios I. Farantos, Nikitas Spiros Koutsoukis
Subject(s): Economy, Media studies, Health and medicine and law, Family and social welfare
Published by: University of Lincoln and World Experience Campus Foundation
Keywords: Kondratiev cycles; health; economic crises; data envelopment analysis (DEA);

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the present study is to investigate the change in relative efficiency through a comparative study on the efficiency of health units within a Greek health region during an economic crisis environment, with the aid of a new application. The study is designed to collect data from the 6th Greek health region and to process that data with the use of Data Envelopment Analysis software. The study methodology extends to the application of the study of efficiency of organisations and the integration of the analysis in an interpretation framework within the economic crisis. The study refers to similar hospital clinics (pathological) within one of the largest Greek health regions in order for the results to be comparable. We estimate and calculate the DEA sizes based on the CRS, VRS and SE models of the Health Units of a Greek health region, with the use of a new application which calculates the change of overall relative Efficiency during the crisis. The study of the change in the efficiency of health units leads to useful conclusions on the negative changes in the observed efficiency of the units and the integration of the studies on the change of efficiency in the Integrated crisis management. The study ranks the efficient and inefficient units and suggests ways of improvement. This study allows for further case studies in the future and the completion of the integrated crisis management model through comparative studies on the efficiency of systems.

  • Issue Year: 2/2016
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 81-98
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English