Title :
Medical care system evaluation based on DEA of prefectures in Japan
Author :
Fukuoka, Kenji ; Aoki, Shingo ; Majima, Yukie
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Intell. Syst., Osaka Prefecture Univ., Sakai, Japan
Abstract :
In order to reveal disparity and its cause in medical care among Japanese prefectures, this paper describes how DEA works as follows: (1) DEA/BCC model estimates the disparity between prefectures, (2) "RM-DEA using Cone-Ratio approach" estimates the cause of the disparity, and (3) Improved MF-DEA (Multi-Frontier based DEA) model estimates the disparity between eastern and western Japan. This paper also illustrates three numerical experiments.
Keywords :
data envelopment analysis; health care; BCC model; Cone-Ratio approach; Japanese prefectures; MF-DEA; disparity estimation; medical care system evaluation; multifrontier based DEA; Analytical models; Biomedical equipment; Data envelopment analysis; Hospitals; Intelligent systems; Numerical models; Data Envelopment Analysis; Medical Service;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7315-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1098-7584
DOI :
10.1109/FUZZY.2011.6007539
