Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
40th Congress on Operations Research/Industrial Engineering-YAEM-2021, İstanbul, Türkiye, 4 - 07 Temmuz 2021, ss.72-73
Health operations managers must be aware of the nongenerous distribution of resources in cancer care and consider
the density and clustering of operations in their management
plans. This study examines the efficiencies of cancer care under the operationalization of health services in Turkey. Three
areas of analysis are presented: hospital-, comprehensive oncological, and provincial-centered. Bootstrapped data envelopment analysis procedure was used to obtain more precise
efficiency scores. Study results reveal that oncology services
in rural areas are less efficient than those in urban areas. After applying the bootstrapping techniques, the results show
that the efficiency scores are significantly improved. Investment in cancer control is crucial for making oncology services
more efficient. Evidence-based operational design that considers the spatial dynamics of health services is necessary for
the effective sustainability of services, especially those dealing with highly mortality rates (i.e., oncology care). Further
studies should incorporate cost dynamics into the efficiency
analysis.