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. 2019 Jun 24;19(1):415.
doi: 10.1186/s12913-019-4163-5.

Assessing frontline HIV service provider efficiency using data envelopment analysis: a case study of Philippine social hygiene clinics (SHCs)

Xerxes T Seposo  1   2   3 , Ichiro Okubo  4 , Masahide Kondo  5
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Assessing frontline HIV service provider efficiency using data envelopment analysis: a case study of Philippine social hygiene clinics (SHCs)

Xerxes T Seposo et al. BMC Health Serv Res. .

Abstract

Background: Globally, local and frontline HIV service delivery units have been deployed to halt the HIV epidemic. However, with the limited resources, there is a need to understand how these units can deliver their optimum outputs/outcomes efficiently given the inputs. This study aims to determine the efficiency of the social hygiene clinics (SHC) in the Philippines as well as to determine the association of the meta-predictor to the efficiencies.

Methods: In determining efficiency, we used the variables from two data sources namely the 2012 Philippine HIV Costing study and 2011 Integrated HIV Behavioral and Serologic Surveillance, as inputs and outputs, respectively. Various data management protocols and initial assumptions in data matching, imputation and variable selection, were used to create the final dataset with 9 SHCs. We used data envelopment analysis (DEA) to analyse the efficiency, while variations in efficiencies were analysed using Tobit regression with area-specific meta-predictors.

Results: There were potentially inefficient use of limited resources among sampled SHC in both aggregate and key populations. Tobit regression results indicated that income was positively associated with efficiency, while HIV prevalence was negatively associated with the efficiency variations among the SHCs.

Conclusions: We were able to determine the inefficiently performing SHCs in the Philippines. Though currently inefficient, these SHCs may adjust their inputs and outputs to become efficient in the future. While there were indications of income and HIV prevalence to be associated with the efficiency variations, the results of this case study may only be limited in generalisability, thus further studies are warranted.

Keywords: Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; HIV; Philippines; Social hygiene clinic.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Figures

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Fig. 1
Schematic diagram of Data Processing and Analyses. Shows the flow of the robust protocols used from data matching until Tobit regression
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Fig. 2
Location of the nine study SHCs. Geographical location of the operational non-study SHCs (blue dots), and the study SHCs (red dots) across the Philippines. Fig. 2 was generated using R statistical programming [86] software through the "ggmaps" package
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