The Analysis of Tuberculosis Funds Efficiency On High Burden Countries

Abstract

Tuberculosis remains a major global health problem and ranks` as the second leading cause of death from infectious disease worldwide. Every country tries to spend different budget to overcome the tuberculosis problem. The level of efficiency of use of the budget will reduce the number of tuberculosis cases and give good impact to economy. This paper has two objectives. The first is to estimate technical efficiency scores of tuberculosis funds on high burden countries by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method. The second is to analyse the other environmental factors that play an important role to increase efficiency scores by using Tobit method. DEA shows some countries have high score of efficiency and some countries have low score and show how that countriesuse fund to get optimum output. The Tobit estimation shows that tax of cigarette and budget of tobacco control have positive marginal effect to technical efficiency scores.

Keywords: Efficiency, Tuberculosis Funds, Data Envelopment Analysis, Tobit

JEL Classification: I15