La eficiencia técnica en los sistemas de salud y su respuesta ante la pandemia COVID-19: un análisis de las tasas de mortalidad

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic brought consequences, many of them irreparable, especially in the field of health, causing an unusual mortality rate in the population. The objective of this analysis is to determine the existence of a causal relationship and the level of incidence of the Technical Efficiency of Health Systems in response to the mortality caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, applying the DEA methodology and the OLS adjustment methods, MCG and MC2E. 108 countries were considered divided into two groups according to per capita health spending and whose data were obtained from the World Bank. Among the main results, it was found that an increase of 1% in the Technical Efficiency of the health systems of the countries analyzed, would decrease between 61 and 127 deaths from Covid per hundred thousand inhabitants, concluding that the efficiency of spending is transcendental, not only in the prevention of deaths but mainly in guaranteeing the universal right of the population to free access to the services of the health systems.