Table 1.
Description of variables included in the DEA
| Mean | Standard deviation | Range | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | Maximum | |||
| Inputs - spending per capita, $ | ||||
| Hospitals | 1,718,93 | 520,4C | 951,32 | 3,826,39 |
| Prescription drugs | 545,60 | 123,50 | 288,53 | 884,25 |
| Physicians | 471,15 | 122,42 | 177,01 | 816,72 |
| Residential care facilities | 336,42 | 164,00 | 74,20 | 901,83 |
| Community nurses | 54,49 | 18,51 | 19,59 | 98,68 |
| Inputs - environment | ||||
| Education (% with high school or more) | 82,33 | 6,85 | 63,30 | 94,00 |
| Recent immigrants (%) | 3,16 | 4,21 | 0,10 | 16,70 |
| Non-Aboriginal (%) | 92,74 | 9,21 | 49,50 | 99,60 |
| Output | ||||
| PYLL from treatable causes (before age 80), per 100,000 population, age-standardizec | 1,666,34 | 317,92 | 1,066,6 | 2,452,6 |