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Hacia la Promoción de la Salud
Print version ISSN 0121-7577
Abstract
MENDOZA-MENDOZA*, Adel Alfonso; DE LA VICTORIA-OJEDA, Melannye and ZARATE-ARROYO***, Allison Andrea. EFFICIENCY IN THE QUALITY OF THE SERVICE OF HEALTH PROMOTION ENTITIES OF THE COLOMBIAN SUBSIDIZED REGIME. Hacia promoc. Salud [online]. 2017, vol.22, n.2, pp.13-25. ISSN 0121-7577. https://doi.org/10.17151/hpsal.2017.22.2.2.
Objective:
To evaluate the efficiency in the quality of Health Promotion Entities service of the subsidized regime between 2011-1 and 2014-1.
Materials and Methods:
A descriptive retrospective study of the quality in the subsidized regime health promotion entities service was performed supported by the data envelopment analysis (DEA) methodology using the output-oriented model proposed by Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes. A selection of a set of variables was performed from the database of the National Health Board.
Results:
The results indicate that 14 of the 22 evaluated entities showed efficiency greater than 90% during the study period.
Conclusions:
The envelopment analysis of data allowed identifying the subsidized regime Health Promotion Entities (EPS) that obtained a good performance in the period of study, as well as the average efficiency that did not exceed 70%, which shows that Colombia is currently undergoing a crisis in the health sector.
Keywords : Organizational efficiency; quality of health care; health systems; health facility administrators; health services.