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Table 3 Efficiency of China’s MHS from 1991 to 2020

From: Equity and efficiency of medical and health service system in China

Year

Overall efficiency

Technical efficiency

Scale efficiency

Type of scale inefficiency

Relatively efficiency status

1991

1.000

1.000

1.000

-

Efficient

1992

0.996

1.000

0.995

irs

Weakly efficient

1993

0.953

1.000

0.999

-

Weakly efficient

1994

0.978

1.000

1.000

-

Weakly efficient

1995

0.989

1.000

0.997

irs

Weakly efficient

1996

0.581

0.925

0.628

irs

Inefficient

1997

0.567

0.926

0.609

irs

Inefficient

1998

0.544

0.912

0.596

irs

Inefficient

1999

0.531

0.908

0.587

irs

Inefficient

2000

0.546

0.934

0.595

irs

Inefficient

2001

0.547

0.916

0.597

irs

Inefficient

2002

0.613

0.965

0.635

irs

Inefficient

2003

0.617

0.963

0.641

irs

Inefficient

2004

0.654

0.962

0.680

irs

Inefficient

2005

0.684

0.968

0.702

irs

Inefficient

2006

0.723

0.958

0.755

irs

Inefficient

2007

0.851

1.000

0.839

irs

Weakly efficient

2008

0.915

1.000

0.912

irs

Weakly efficient

2009

1.000

1.000

1.000

irs

Weakly efficient

2010

0.990

0.997

0.999

irs

Inefficient

2011

0.995

1.000

0.999

irs

Weakly efficient

2012

1.000

1.000

1.000

-

Efficient

2013

1.000

1.000

1.000

drs

Efficient

2014

1.000

0.979

1.000

drs

Weakly efficient

2015

0.989

0.998

0.999

-

Inefficient

2016

0.997

1.000

1.000

-

Weakly efficient

2017

1.000

1.000

1.000

-

Efficient

2018

1.000

1.000

1.000

-

Efficient

2019

1.000

1.000

1.000

-

Efficient

2020

0.865

0.865

0.997

-

Inefficient

Mean

0.838

0.973

0.859

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  1. Data source: Author’s calculations according to National Bureau of Statistics of China