Abstract:

In the present study, the purpose was to evaluate the health effectiveness of the Organization for Economic Development and Co-operation (OECD) countries, including Turkey, with input-oriented DEA and inverse DEA models. The input and output variables were determined by examining the studies in the literature. In this respect, the input variables were identified as the number of physicians per thousand people, the num-ber of hospital beds per thousand people, health expenditure per capita; and output variables were ex-pected life expectancy at birth, and rate of surviving infants. According to the DEA results, only Turkey, Mex-ico and Colombia were found to be efficient. In addition, the input variable which affects at most the health efficiency scores of countries was determined as the number of physicians. According to the findings of the inverse DEA obtained in the study, it was determined that the current number of physicians in Turkey was sufficient, and that the healthcare expenditure per person and the number of hospital beds should be in-creased.

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