Health Care Financing Reforms in Eastern European Countries
Health care financing is an important limiting element in the development of health care in Eastern
Europe, especially in a difficult economic situation. Negative experience in creating reimbursement
mechanisms that would support economic efficiency and high quality of care is also a problem.
Objective: Analysis of health care reform reforms and identification of common trends and national
differences.
Evaluation of geographic inequalities in public sector
The market allocates resources according to willingness and ability to pay, not according to needs of
local population. But the geographic inequalities in public services are clearly the results of state
planning. In the public sector, the equal access to services is one of the main public policy objectives.
Therefore, any variation in the distribution of resources may be understood as a result of wrong state
regulation.
Objective: to measure and evaluate the inequalities in geographic distribution of public services.