Submit Manuscript

Journal of Applied Sciences

Year: 2007 | Volume: 7 | Issue: 3 | Page No.: 356-361
Facebook Twitter Digg Reddit Linkedin StumbleUpon E-mail

Article Trend

Total views 254

Search

Authors

John K. Mduma

Keywords

Research Article

Regional Health Sector Performances in Tanzania: A Comparison of Various Aggregating Schemes

John K. Mduma
In Tanzania, the Ministry of Health publishes the Heath Statistics Abstract, which contains several indicators of health performance disaggregated on regional level. For policy intervention at the regional level, it is necessary to have an indicator which is able to consistently rank the performance of each region. Given that there are several indicators which show the performance of each region, such comparison is not straight forward. One option is to create an aggregated index/indicator from the given standard indicators. We develop such Unified Health Performance Index (UHPI) based in several performance indicators collected in the 1990s. In the construction of the UHPI, the weights of different standard health performance indicators are derived by applying the benefit-of-the-doubt weighting method, which gives regions some freedom to emphasize and prioritize some aspects of indicators, which they perform best over others. The results of our index are compared with those based on simple averages, simple rankings and their policy implications are discussed.
PDF Fulltext XML References Citation

Leave a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *