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It found that on average, unit costs decreased with scale, but also that high levels of inefficiency were similar at any scale [ 11].
In comparison, this study found relatively high levels of inefficiency in rural primary care services highlighting the importance of focusing research to strengthen health systems on regions where inequalities are greatest.
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Findings of previous studies on technical efficiency in Ghana corroborate the results of this current study demonstrating the high levels of inefficiencies in healthcare facilities.
High levels of inefficiencies and poor quality care standards in accredited health facilities could have dire consequences on the operational and financial sustainability of Ghana's NHIS hence the need to prioritize technical efficiency as an NHIS sustainability strategy.
The eastern region of China displays relatively low level of inefficiency (i.e., better productive efficiency), whereas the western region of China displays a relatively high level of inefficiency (i.e., worse productive efficiency).
This indicates a very high level of inefficiency where the level of outputs could have been increased by 77%.
Given the high level of inefficiency in the system, further progress in improving coverage of institutional delivery in the country should focus both on improving the efficiency of resource utilization especially where inefficiency levels are extremely high and on bringing new resources in to the system.
At the same time, clinging to old ways also forces Japan to accept higher levels of inefficiency.
However, similar to other studies, we found the opposite to be true, private for profit hospitals exhibited the highest levels of inefficiency compared to public, mission and quasi-government health facilities [ 28- 30].
With high levels of technical inefficiency, a significant proportion of the available resources are wasted.
The fact that farm households with higher level of rights / control on their farmland were associated with significantly higher level of inefficiency, however, goes against a-priori expectations.
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