Evaluation of equity and efficiency in health resource allocation in underdeveloped county areas: empirical research from Guangxi, China
Rong Peng, Meng Deng, Zhen Li, Jing Kang, Junyuan Wei, Nan Jiang, Xianjing Qin, Tingting Xu, Jun Feng · 2026
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Rong Peng leads a nine-author audit of how fairly and efficiently health resources are shared across eight underdeveloped counties in Guangxi, China, between 2015 and 2021. Fairness was scored with Gini coefficients and Lorenz curves, the standard inequality tools, while efficiency came from data envelopment analysis comparing inputs to outputs county by county.
Per-person resource distribution scored highly equal overall, but people were shared less fairly than buildings and beds, with licensed doctors the most unevenly spread resource of all. Efficiency averaged below the frontier in every year, and only three to five counties hit full efficiency at a time, dragged down mainly by poor scale efficiency. Allocation by population and economic output beat allocation by land area on fairness. The authors recommend sharper workforce management and coordinated planning for poor counties.
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| CREATOR | Rong Peng, Meng Deng, Zhen Li, Jing Kang, Junyuan Wei, Nan Jiang, Xianjing Qin, Tingting Xu, Jun Feng |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 45899 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |