Technical efficiency of women’s health prevention programs in Bucaramanga, Colombia: a four-stage analysis

Table 1 Descriptive statistic of input, output and context variables, Bucaramanga, Colombia, 2012

Variable	Mean	Std. Deviation	Minimum	Maximum
Inputs
Personnel (COP)
ANC Program	15987421.30	12412112.36	3124380.18	54555970.55
DCACU Program	7919344.57	4808720.61	1741427.31	21405561.67
FP Program	11211856.54	4848131.55	1835309.87	23996440.01
Capital (COP)
ANC Program	4522934.74	3810770.69	802426.48	17205338.44
DCACU Program	3306247.94	2101757.80	1460307.53	10835288.96
FP Program	12309640.44	11129064.97	3124374.21	40527398.70
Consumable resources (COP)
ANC Program	270265.14	212771.99	47526.00	728285.00
DCACU Program	1104567.53	612587.02	325973.48	2670384.17
FP Program	15465950.78	8640885.96	3501547.00	35408461.20
Outputs
Activities output
ANC: No. of consultations	740.57	585.86	98.00	2081.00
DCACU: No. of citologies	648.57	367.39	177.00	1582.00
FP: No. of counseling visits	1226.09	590.33	168.00	2516.00
Quality output
ANC: Proportion of adherence to guidelines	0.75	0.04	0.63	0.81
DCACU:Proportion women with 3:1 squeme^a	0.74	0.14	0.29	0.88
FP: Proportion counseling coverage^b	0.77	0.13	0.52	1.00
Context variables
Women average age	34.39	3.04	29.90	40.30
Proportion of population in Unidos program^c	0.08	0.08	0.00	0.23
Proportion of families with women as family head	0.63	0.07	0.43	0.75
Proportion of women 18 or older with high school degree	0.48	0.04	0.44	0.60

ANC antenatal care, DCACU cancer of the uterine cervix diagnosis, FP Family Planning
^a squeme 3:1 refers to women having at least one citology during the last 3 years
^b Proportion of women who received counseling in family planning from the health center
^cUnidos program is the Colombian national program to fight poverty which support families with very low incomes

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