TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY OF PUBLIC SECTOR HOSPITALS IN THREE SOUTH AFRICAN PROVINCES*

Abstract

HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS within Sub-Saharan African countries (SSA) are faced with increasingly scarce resources, which constrains their ability to extend health services of acceptable quality to the vast majority of their people.This severe shortage of health care resources is accounted for by a host of factors, the most important of which include poor macroeconomic performance, cutbacks in public spending, rapid population growth, the AIDS epidemic and the resurgence of diseases such as malaria.The constrained ability to adequately meet health care

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