COUNCIL DESIGNATED HOSPITALS (CDHs) – VOLUNTEERING AGENCY HOSPITALS (VAHs): DOES IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE?: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HOSPITALS’ PRODUCTIVITY IN TANZANIa
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Literature records that there are a few studies assessing hospitals ‘productivity in Tanzania. Council Designated Hospitals (CDHs) are private not for profit hospitals which operate as council or district referral hospitals; on the other hand Volunteering Agency Hospitals (VAHs) are private not for profit hospitals which do not have contract to operate as the council or district hospitals. This study attempts to shed light on the productivity comparison between VAHs and CDHs, with the sample size of 34 hospitals (17 CDHs and 17 VAHs), data were extracted from respective hospitals’ annual reports and collected using the stratified sampling procedure, in this case zones (lake, eastern, western, southern and northern zone) were treated as stratum from which data for VAHs and CDHs were drawn. The aim of using stratified sampling was to get representation of the total population (90 faith based private hospitals) in the country; the method is also suitable for the study which focuses on specific issues. The study employed Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) model to examine productivity over the sampled period from 2012/13 to 2015/16.
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