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Table 1

Specification of DEA window variables

Label	Variable	Definition
Inputs
{I}1	Share of health expenditure in household revenues	Household expenditure on protection health concerns expenses for medical services, medicines, and private medical insurance. These expenses also include forms characteristic of the Polish market, the so-called subscription fees – prepaid forms of health services that are on the border of health services and health insurance
{I}2	Expenses for long-term care	National Health Fund expenditure on long-term care per person over 75 years of age
{I}3	Number of medical staff	Number of physicians per inhabitant
Outputs
{O}1	Deaths to avoid in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	Compliant premature due to disease as a rule curable. It is, therefore, mortality which – in a given age range – can be prevented by incorporating health promotion, prevention, as well as proper diagnostic and therapeutic management and rehabilitation
{O}2	Number of people on waiting lists	The total number of people (stable cases) waiting to visit selected clinics (neurological, ophthalmic, cardiological, endocrine and traumatic orthopedic surgery) per 1,000 population
{O}3	Accreditation	Number of hospitals in the voivodship with the accreditation of the Quality Monitoring Center in the total number of hospitals
{O}4	The profitability of gross sales of self-government hospitals in voivodships	The gross sales profitability indicator informs about the value of gross profit (before tax), falling for every PLN of achieved revenues. The indicator informs about the profitability of current operations of the entire group of entities with the status of hospitals in a given voivodship, except for those belonging to the Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of National Defense
{O}5	EBITDA of local government units in voivodships	Operating profit/loss + depreciation in local government units in the voivodship (excluding departmental and clinical units)

Label	Variable	Definition
Inputs
{I}1	Share of health expenditure in household revenues	Household expenditure on protection health concerns expenses for medical services, medicines, and private medical insurance. These expenses also include forms characteristic of the Polish market, the so-called subscription fees – prepaid forms of health services that are on the border of health services and health insurance
{I}2	Expenses for long-term care	National Health Fund expenditure on long-term care per person over 75 years of age
{I}3	Number of medical staff	Number of physicians per inhabitant
Outputs
{O}1	Deaths to avoid in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	Compliant premature due to disease as a rule curable. It is, therefore, mortality which – in a given age range – can be prevented by incorporating health promotion, prevention, as well as proper diagnostic and therapeutic management and rehabilitation
{O}2	Number of people on waiting lists	The total number of people (stable cases) waiting to visit selected clinics (neurological, ophthalmic, cardiological, endocrine and traumatic orthopedic surgery) per 1,000 population
{O}3	Accreditation	Number of hospitals in the voivodship with the accreditation of the Quality Monitoring Center in the total number of hospitals
{O}4	The profitability of gross sales of self-government hospitals in voivodships	The gross sales profitability indicator informs about the value of gross profit (before tax), falling for every PLN of achieved revenues. The indicator informs about the profitability of current operations of the entire group of entities with the status of hospitals in a given voivodship, except for those belonging to the Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of National Defense
{O}5	EBITDA of local government units in voivodships	Operating profit/loss + depreciation in local government units in the voivodship (excluding departmental and clinical units)

Source(s): Own elaboration