An economic analysis of the Romanian healthcare system based on an European comparative approach

Part of : WSEAS transactions on business and economics ; Vol.5, No.6, 2008, pages 330-340

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The paper presents the most important characteristics of three types of healthcare systems in Europe –Beveridge, Bismarck and Semaşko systems – and intends to analyse the healthcare system in Romania based on acomparison with the countries that initiated and are representative for these models (United Kingdom, Germany,Russia). In order to outline the image of the healthcare system in Romania, we used multiple regression models toemphasize the impact of economic and social determinants of health on certain indicators. The results of the conductedanalysis showed that the evolution of the Romanian health indicators are not always to be ascribed to theconventionally thought to be important factors.
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European healthcare system, Romanian healthcare system, economic analysis, health indicators, regression models, health determinants
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