قياس الكفاءة النسبية للأنظمة الصحية العربية في ظل جائحة كورونا باستخدام أسلوب تحليل مغلف البيانات

الملخص EN

This paper aims to measure the relative efficiency of sixteen Arab health systems regarding coronavirus pandemic by using Data Envelopment Analysis with output orientation and variable returns to scale.

Three inputs are chosen namely: ratio of per capita health expenditures to per capita GDP, physicians per 10.000 population, and beds per 10.000 population, and one output which is the rate of recovery.

The study revealed that the technical efficiency index is 89,8% while the scale efficiency index is 60,9%.

These findings indicate that Arab health systems have an acceptable efficiency, but they dont work in their optimal sizes, except Mauritania and Djibouti.