Administrating and Financing the Health Care System in Bulgaria (1990-2005)

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE EVALUATION STUDIES FINANCING, HEALTH HEALTH CARE REFORM HEALTH SYSTEM PLANS – organization and administration BULGARIA

Health system financing in Estonia: situation and challenges in 2005

In recent years, concern has grown about the sustainability of health system financing in Estonia. Nevertheless, no systematic overview of the health financing system has been available to serve as a basis for comprehensive discussions. This case study aims to fill this gap using a framework for country-level analysis of health care financing arrangements proposed by Kutzin (2001). The framewor...

Organisation and financing of the health care systems of Bulgaria and Greece – what are the parallels?

BACKGROUND The Bulgarian and Greek Medical Care systems have been reformated the last fifteen years. The aim of this study was an examination and comparison of the Bulgarian and Greek Medical Care Systems. METHODS This study was prepared by using all the published data related to both Bulgarian and Greek Medical Care systems. Besides, personal communications with related offices such as admin...

Ethics and financing: overview of the U.S. health care system.

An overview of the financing decisions that occurred with the U.S. health system during the past five decades was presented in relation to the ethical issues which gave rise to and resulted from those financing decisions. This health system evolved from decision-making grounded in altruism through increasing the access and supply of resources to a position of caution and financial prudence. Rec...

Financing the health care Internet.

Internet-related health care firms have accelerated through the life cycle of capital finance and organizational destiny, including venture capital funding, public stock offerings, and consolidation, in the wake of heightened competition and earnings disappointments. Venture capital flooded into the e-health sector, rising from $3 million in the first quarter of 1998 to $335 million two years l...