masterThesis
La eficiencia técnica en los sistemas de salud y su respuesta ante la pandemia COVID-19: un análisis de las tasas de mortalidad
Fecha
2022-03-24Autor
Suin Guaraca, Luis Heriberto
Institución
Resumen
The COVID-19 pandemic brought consequences, many of them irreparable, especially in
the field of health, causing an unusual mortality rate in the population. The objective of
this analysis is to determine the existence of a causal relationship and the level of
incidence of the Technical Efficiency of Health Systems in response to the mortality
caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, applying the DEA methodology and the OLS
adjustment methods, MCG and MC2E. 108 countries were considered divided into two
groups according to per capita health spending and whose data were obtained from the
World Bank. Among the main results, it was found that an increase of 1% in the Technical
Efficiency of the health systems of the countries analyzed, would decrease between 61
and 127 deaths from Covid per hundred thousand inhabitants, concluding that the
efficiency of spending is transcendental, not only in the prevention of deaths but mainly in
guaranteeing the universal right of the population to free access to the services of the
health systems.