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The efficiency of immunization of infants by local government

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  • Bruce Hollingsworth
  • Anthony Harris
  • Elena Gospodarevskaya

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The paper makes use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the cost and production efficiency of local government programmemes for childhood immunization in urban and rural settings in Australia. Model specification is tested for validity, methods are used for ranking efficient units and advanced statistical methods are used to establish confidence intervals around the efficiency estimates. Given the small data set, the cost and production models are valid, and it is concluded that while neither urban nor rural programmes are particularly efficient, there is more room for improvement in rural programmes. Ways of changing methods of delivery are suggested which may increase efficiency.

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  • Bruce Hollingsworth & Anthony Harris & Elena Gospodarevskaya, 2002. "The efficiency of immunization of infants by local government," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(18), pages 2341-2345.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:34:y:2002:i:18:p:2341-2345
    DOI: 10.1080/00036840210147158
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    1. Castro Lobo, M.S. & Estellita Lins, M.P. & Menegolla, I.A., 2014. "A new approach to assess the performance of the Brazilian National Immunization Program (NIP)," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 48(1), pages 49-56.
    2. Nicolas A. Menzies & Christian Suharlim & Stephen C. Resch & Logan Brenzel, 2020. "The efficiency of routine infant immunization services in six countries: a comparison of methods," Health Economics Review, Springer, vol. 10(1), pages 1-11, December.

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