Health care planning in Slovenia.

Two of the most important current dimensions of health planning and administration in the Republic of Slovenia are the regionalization of its health services and the recent amalgamation of its health insurance programs for workers and farmers. Slovenian health services and health insurance programs first were organized in the post-war government on a regional basis in 1951. Separate health insurance programs for workers and farmers existed, however, until the referendum of 1972 which led to the first combined health insurance system in Yugoslavia, initiated in 1973.