Evaluation of the Performance of E7 Countries in Terms of Women’s Health Status: DEA Analysis

Abstract

The aim of this study is to compare the relative effectiveness of the health systems' performance on the health status of women according to the education level of women, their income level and the ratio of health expenditures to GDP of E7 countries. For this purpose, 4 inputs and 2 output variables were determined. As a result of the correlation analysis conducted before the analysis, the input variable "Education level (Population with at least secondary education, 15 years and over, female)", which is among the input variables and has a high correlation with other variables, was excluded from the analysis. The input oriented CCR-DEA model was used in the study. The analysis results in India, Indonesia and Turkey techniques fully effective; Russia was 93% efficient, China 87.49%, Mexico 84.93% and Brazil 82.3%. Unlike countries that enabled the analysis results with values below the average in Turkey while the input variables have values above the average in the output variables. Therefore, it is for example among the E7 countries with the highest number to have access to the technical activities to other countries in terms of the number of reference Turkey.