The present paper analyzes the overall efficiency at the regional level in health care system in the EU states members which joined after 2004 in a time period between 2003 and 2005. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which is a method proven to be useful in a diverse variety of applications in...

The healthcare system is one of the most important sector in social area, especially because it has a great influence over the health status of the population (measured by life expectancy at birth). Furthermore, the healthcare system is a major consumer of human, material and financial...

Efficiency in health service sector is very important because the health sector is a major consumer of resources (especially financial). In this paper the author aims to analyze the efficiency in a social sector (healthcare system) based on cost-benefit analysis.

The complexity of the problem the national health care program confronts with and which must be solved through the measures of the respective reform lead to a SWOT analysis, particularly for this reform. The capacity to generate the necessary income it is a very important criteria in...

This study seeks to determine if, in Romania, a relation in the short and / or long run between economic growth and energy consumption by fuel can be established. To this end, the authors used time series for the period 1965-2007 over which a set of tests were realized: a test to verify the...

This paper aims to bring into attention the concept of renewable energy investments’ efficiency and to study one of the three concepts related to it, namely environmental efficiency of investments in renewable energy. The analysis is undertaken at macroeconomic level for several countries in...

This paper brings into attention a new method for analyzing renewable energy investments efficiency, a procedure called Principal Component Analysis. Authors aim to provide an adequate background for this method, before applying it to a set of data concerning renewable energy. The paper begins...

This paper's aim is to examine the relationship between energy consumption by fuel end economic growth in a comparative analysis for Spain, Romania and European Union. Applying a methodology in three steps on data for the 1990–2010 period, long-run and short-run relationships are revealed. On...

Quality of life in cities depends largely on the availability of attractive and accessible green spaces. It is generally agreed that urban green spaces are essential for the health and well-being of citizens. This paper aims to broach the issue of urban green spaces, emphasizing their importance...

It has become a well known fact that a sustainable development of humankind resides not only in preserving the environment but mainly in preserving solidarity between generations or within a generation. This sustainable development defined as a productive cooperation between generations implies...