Author(s)

Shasha He, Wenping Deng

Corresponding Author

Wenping Deng

Abstract

Based on the 2020 China Health and Hygiene Statistical Yearbook published by the National Health and Hygiene Commission, Chinese medicine hospitals in 30 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) of China were taken as the research object, and the data envelopment analysis method was applied to analyze the health resource allocation of Chinese medicine hospitals in China in 2019. The results show that the mean values of comprehensive efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency of health resource allocation in Chinese medicine hospitals in 30 provinces and cities in 2019 are 0.990, 0.998 and 0.992, respectively, of which 25 provinces and cities (accounting for 83.33%) have reached the DEA effective provinces and cities, 4 provinces and cities with weak DEA effective provinces and cities (accounting for 13.33%), and 1 province and city with non-DEA effective provinces and cities (accounting for 3.33%). From this, it can be introduced that the overall level of health resource allocation efficiency in Chinese medicine hospitals in China in 2019 is very high, and only a small number of provinces and cities have irrational health resource allocation, which needs to optimize the structure of inputs and outputs in order to enhance the capacity of Chinese medicine services.

Keywords

Data Envelopment Method, Factor Analysis, Chinese Medicine Hospital, Health Resource Allocation, Efficiency Evaluation