[Analysis of the performance of public health centers in Senegal].

The purpose of this study was to assess the performance of public health centers in Senegal between 2007 and 2010 based on technical efficiency. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to calculate the efficiency scores. The results show that the mean technical efficiency of public health centers gradually increased over the period of study and reached a mean of 0.760, indicating that health centers can increase their outputs by 24% with the same amount of inputs. The number of assisted deliveries could be increased by 645 every year in each health center. Weight and nutrition monitoring could also be extended to 2,139 children using the same amount of inputs. The results indicate that practices need to be improved to accelerate the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The practices of efficient centers also need to be examined in detail and extended to less efficient centers.