ADSU International Journal of Applied Economics, Finance and Management

Comparative Analysis Of Public And Private Healthcare Providers’ Technical Efficiency In Mubi Metropolis

Abstract

There has been a strong debate for decades over which is the most efficient healthcare services provider between private and public healthcare providers. This study therefore, dwelled on the comparative analysis of technical efficiency between Private and Public Healthcare providers in Mubi Metropolis. Mubi metropolis comprises of two Local Government Headquarters (Mubi North & Mubi South). Data used were both Primary and secondary and the methodology of the data analysis for this study was Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The inputs used in the study were number of doctors, nurses, CHEW, JCHEW as proxies for health technicians and number of beds in the health care centers while the outputs were in-patients, out-patients and child immunization. The study revealed that, most of the public health care centers were more technically efficient than the private’s ones with the mean technical efficiency scores 0.9198 and 0.7696 respectively. Similarly, the study also revealed that the mean scale efficiency for public health care centers is greater than the private health care centers in Mubi metropolis with the score of 0.8322 and 0.7164 respectively. The study therefore, recommends that both public and private hospitals should adopt modern administrative techniques and adequate supervision for proper services that will lead to better technical and scale efficiency. Moreover, other methodologies should be considered for this comparative analysis by future researchers.