AN APPRAISAL OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SERVICES IN MUBI NORTH L.GA, ADAMAWA STATE, NIGERIA
Adamu Yahaya and Kamal Bukar
Volume 4 Issue 1
Abstract
This study examined the analysis of efficiency of Primary HealthCare Services in Mubi-North Local Government Area, Adamawa State. The study addresses the issue of poor staffing, inadequate utilization of resources, specifically lack of residential doctors in most of the Primary Health Care centers. Primary and secondary data are employed through close ended questionnaire in the study area. Data Envelopment Analysis and Tobit Regression Analysis were used to achieve the objectives of the study. Inputs used in this study are health technicians and number of beds in the primary health care centers while the outputs are inpatients and outpatients. The study revealed that, majority of the Primary Healthcare centers in Mubi North is technically efficient at 100%. Similarly, the result showed that average working experience inversely influence technical efficiency of the Primary Health Care centers in Mubi North and it is statistically significant at 5%. Therefore, the study recommends that; Primary HealthCare centers should adopt 2017 and 2018 managerial service, for effective resources utilization and proper administrative services of health technicians in order enhance the level of performance of the health care centers in Mubi North, through proper check and balance in the system by the government. Secondly, there is need to improve the working ability of the health technicians through proper supervision, consistence in service, create training ground for the health technicians and conducive environment to exercise their duty by the government. Key word: Technical Efficiency, Scale Efficiency, Inpatients, Outpatients, Data Envelopment Analysis
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