The Korea Local Administration Review

This research aims to measure the efficiency of 17 local public health centersin Gyeongsang-Namdo of 2013 year and further evaluate their productivity growthduring the period of 2009-2013, using the Super Slack Based Measure(Super SBM)and Malmquist Productivity Index(MPI). The results show that the average efficiencyscore of the 17 local public health centers in Gyongnam is 88.25%; and the primaryreason got their inefficiency is Pure Technical Efficiency (PTE), rather than ScaleEfficiency (SE). Second, according to this research, the annual productivity of the17 local public health centers increased 2.5% and the efficiency of its all parts,including an annual technological change and an technical efficiency, also increased.Third, PTE increased at an annual rate of 0.67%, whereas SE showed an annual1.72% growth.
□ Keywords: local public health center, CCR, BCC, Super-SBM, MPI