Many hospitals have been built for people in silver age and these hospitals want to set various remote health care systems for the old people who are living in a place far from these hospitals. The systems processes are connected with each other and with networks as well. These systems handle...

Local government units (LGU) are nowadays facing the very difficult and complicated task of making reasonable decisions regarding the transforming of SPZOZs into capital companies. First, it seems necessary to carry out a simulation of costs and advantages of the assumed models and solutions...

A regional disparity is becoming increasingly important growth constraint. Policy makers need quantitative knowledge to design effective and targeted policies. In this paper, the regional efficiency of healthcare facilities in Slovakia is measured (2008-2015) using data envelopment analysis...

Although cancer survival in general has improved in Australia over the past 30 years, Indigenous Australians, socioeconomically disadvantaged persons, and people living in remote areas still experience poorer health outcomes. This paper aims to describe the development of CancerCostMod, and to...

The Health sector, as a part of the national economy, is extremely important for economic development. A well organized and operating healthcare system constitutes an important notion for both patients and national policy. That is why the organisation of healthcare systems is the subject of...

The purpose of the present paper is to analyse the changes that occurred in the Romanian medical system since the communism’s collapse and until nowadays and to determine the evolution of the population’s health status during this period. During the last 25 years, the public Romanian...

Zusammenfassung Gesundheitstourismus ist ein ziemlich breit gefasster Begriff, der oft als ein Kontinuum verstanden wird, das vom Medizintourismus bis hin zum Wellnesstourismus reicht. Destinationen des Gesundheitstourismus unterscheiden sich daher erheblich in ihrer Angebots- und...

The aim of this article is to provide a basic overview of the transformation of the Czech health care system after the end of the socialist regime. Given that the overall transformation of the economy is a very demanding process, this article focuses primarily on one of the main components of...