ANALISIS TINGKAT EFISIENSI PUSKESMAS DI KOTA SEMARANG TAHUN 2012

Abstract

Health is an investment that was instrumental in the success of the economic development of a country. The existence of health centers as primary health care centers have an important role in making health efforts. But often constrained by the cost and the resources are limited and unevenly spread. It can affect the performance and management of the health center should be obtain efficiently. therefore, this study aims to evaluate the relative efficiency of health centers in Semarang in 2012. This study uses a nonparametric approach, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA method chosen because of its advantages over the glittering process inputs and outputs,that commonly difficult to investigate perfectly when using the others analytical technic measurement. This study uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with the assumption of Variable Return to Scale (VRS) output oriented model. Input variables consist of health financing from state budget (APBN), operation and maintenance cost, numbers of medical staf, and numbers of other medical staf. Output variables consist of number of visitor, coverage of active family planning, immunization coverage, number of child under five’s weighting, and number of health promotion. The results in 2012 showed there are 22 public health centers classified as technically efficient of 37 public health centers in Semarang. for the public heatlh centres which are technically inefficient can be improved by increasing output variable based on DEA