Efficiency Evaluation of Health Poverty Alleviation in Township Hospitals in Liangshan Yi Region based on DEA Model

Jiaxu Chen¹, Wei Shi¹, Lanlan You^2*

¹Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, 610500, China

² The First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, 610500, China

Abstract: This paper analyzes the input-output efficiency of township hospitals in Liangshan Yi region in health poverty alleviation using DEA model. Results show that the comprehensive efficiency of health pov-erty alleviation in township hospitals in Liangshan Yi region is relatively high, and the government's resource input on health poverty alleviation is generally well utilized, although there is a large gap between the com-prehensive efficiency value and the average value for some hospitals. Scale efficiency is the main factor af-fecting the comprehensive technical efficiency, so the existing resource allocation mode should be changed, and the resource input structure of non-DEA effective health institutes should be adjusted according to the characteristics of residence and disease occurrence in Yi region. Non-DEA effective hospitals generally show a large gap between the actual value and ideal value of resource input, so the existing utilization efficiency can be improved by enriching the forms and channels of health poverty alleviation.

Keywords: Health poverty alleviation; Yi region; Township hospitals; DEA efficiency evaluation