The ability of campaign-delivered interventions to achieve higher levels of performance (coverage, quality, or equity) relative to the inputs (resources, time, money).
The Coalition uses Enrique and Marta Burches’s “Efficacy, Effectiveness and Efficiency in the Health Care: The Need for an Agreement to Clarify Its Meaning,” to define efficiency as “the ability of campaign-delivered interventions to achieve higher levels of performance (coverage, quality, or equity) relative to the inputs (resources, time, money).” The article strives to define efficiency in a scientific/ health care context. According to them, in order to achieve efficiency in health fields, there must first be a consensus on what efficiency truly means. Enrique Burches holds an MD and a PhD; Marta Burches holds an MD. Burches et al.’s definition draws from Palmer and Torgerson’s “Definitions of efficiency.”
Burches, Enrique, and Marta Burches. “Efficacy, Effectiveness and Efficiency in the Health Care: The Need for an Agreement to Clarify Its Meaning.” Accessed July 5, 2022. https://doi.org/10.23937/2643-4512/1710035.