Assessing the efficiency of mother-to-child HIV prevention in low- and middle-income countries using data envelopment analysis

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Autor(a) principal: Santos, Sérgio Pereira dos
Data de Publicação: 2012
Outros Autores: Amado, Carla, Santos, Mauro
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/3686
Resumo: AIDS is one of the most significant health care problems worldwide. Due to the difficulty and costs involved in treating HIV, preventing infection is of paramount importance in controlling the AIDS epidemic. The main purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to establish international comparisons on the efficiency of implementation of HIV prevention programmes. To do this we use data from 52 low- and middle-income countries regarding the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Our results indicate that there is a remarkable variation in the efficiency of prevention services across nations, suggesting that a better use of resources could lead to more and improved services, and ultimately, prevent the infection of thousands of children. These results also demonstrate the potential strategic role of DEA for the efficient and effective planning of scarce resources to fight the epidemic.
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spelling Assessing the efficiency of mother-to-child HIV prevention in low- and middle-income countries using data envelopment analysisHIV preventionDEAMother-to-child HIV transmissionAIDS is one of the most significant health care problems worldwide. Due to the difficulty and costs involved in treating HIV, preventing infection is of paramount importance in controlling the AIDS epidemic. The main purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to establish international comparisons on the efficiency of implementation of HIV prevention programmes. To do this we use data from 52 low- and middle-income countries regarding the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Our results indicate that there is a remarkable variation in the efficiency of prevention services across nations, suggesting that a better use of resources could lead to more and improved services, and ultimately, prevent the infection of thousands of children. These results also demonstrate the potential strategic role of DEA for the efficient and effective planning of scarce resources to fight the epidemic.Springer VerlagSapientiaSantos, Sérgio Pereira dosAmado, CarlaSantos, Mauro2014-03-20T14:22:57Z20122012-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/3686eng1386-9620AUT: SSA00141; CAM00958;http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10729-012-9196-9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-24T10:14:44ZPortal AgregadorONG
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Assessing the efficiency of mother-to-child HIV prevention in low- and middle-income countries using data envelopment analysis
title Assessing the efficiency of mother-to-child HIV prevention in low- and middle-income countries using data envelopment analysis
spellingShingle Assessing the efficiency of mother-to-child HIV prevention in low- and middle-income countries using data envelopment analysis
Santos, Sérgio Pereira dos
HIV prevention
DEA
Mother-to-child HIV transmission
title_short Assessing the efficiency of mother-to-child HIV prevention in low- and middle-income countries using data envelopment analysis
title_full Assessing the efficiency of mother-to-child HIV prevention in low- and middle-income countries using data envelopment analysis
title_fullStr Assessing the efficiency of mother-to-child HIV prevention in low- and middle-income countries using data envelopment analysis
title_full_unstemmed Assessing the efficiency of mother-to-child HIV prevention in low- and middle-income countries using data envelopment analysis
title_sort Assessing the efficiency of mother-to-child HIV prevention in low- and middle-income countries using data envelopment analysis
author Santos, Sérgio Pereira dos
author_facet Santos, Sérgio Pereira dos
Amado, Carla
Santos, Mauro
author_role author
author2 Amado, Carla
Santos, Mauro
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Sapientia
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Santos, Sérgio Pereira dos
Amado, Carla
Santos, Mauro
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv HIV prevention
DEA
Mother-to-child HIV transmission
topic HIV prevention
DEA
Mother-to-child HIV transmission
description AIDS is one of the most significant health care problems worldwide. Due to the difficulty and costs involved in treating HIV, preventing infection is of paramount importance in controlling the AIDS epidemic. The main purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to establish international comparisons on the efficiency of implementation of HIV prevention programmes. To do this we use data from 52 low- and middle-income countries regarding the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Our results indicate that there is a remarkable variation in the efficiency of prevention services across nations, suggesting that a better use of resources could lead to more and improved services, and ultimately, prevent the infection of thousands of children. These results also demonstrate the potential strategic role of DEA for the efficient and effective planning of scarce resources to fight the epidemic.
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