Data envelopment analysis for evaluation on effect of comprehensive prevention and control on hypertension

ObjectiveBased the community health service,using data envelopment analysis(DEA)to evaluate the effect of current model of comprehensive prevention and control community-based for hyper tension in Shenzhen city.MethodThirty nine community health service centers of 6 districts in Shenzhen city were sampled using random cluster sampling,and the effect of prevention were evaluate by DEA.ResultsThe result of DEA showed that there were 26 centers(66.7%) reached the best Input-Output ratio within those;and the main problems of 13 inefficiency centers were lower level of compliance rate,control rate of blood-pressure,satisfactory extent and scores of life quality.The insufficient rate were 22.68% and 8.21%,respectively.Whereas the aware rate of hypertension was close to ideal output,the insufficient rate was 0.71%.ConclusionThe result from using DEA to evaluate the effect of comprehensive prevention and control community-based for hyper tension is reliable and scientific.