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...

Reform of health care systems in the member states of the Council of Europe has been a virtually continuous process which seeks to reconcile the often contradictory aims of maximizing quality, efficiency and equality of access as well as guaranteeing the viability of the system, against a...