Investigating the performance of the healthcare sector in the provinces of Iran by using a window analysis in data envelopment analysis

Abstract

Paying attention to the health of people in the community is one of the main challenges that has received much attention in recent years. Regarding the importance of the healthcare sector in the life of the community, evaluation of the performance of this sector is important. One of the most practical methods for evaluating performance is the use of data envelopment analysis approach. In this paper, changes 's performance of healthcare sector of Iranian provinces in terms of their performance in 1393-1396, using data envelopment analysis along with window analysis are considered. The results show that during 1393-1396, the performane of healthcare sector of the provinces West Azarbaijan, Zanjan, Qazvin, Kohkiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad have improved. performance of healthcare sector of the provinces Isfahan, North Khorasan, Kerman, and Yazd have gotten worse.