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Project code: 5-06-198


COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HEALTH SYSTEM REFORMS IN EUROPE AND IN CROATIA


Main researcher: LETICA, SLAVEN (81581)


Assistants
Type of research: applied
Duration from: 05/02/91. to 05/02/95.
Papers on project (total): 45
Papers on project quoted in Current Contents: 1
Institution name: Medicinski fakultet, Zagreb (108)
Department/Institute: Department of medical sociology and health economics
Address: Škola narodnog zdravlja "Andrija Štampar", Rockefellerova 4.
City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia
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Phone: 385 (0) 1 276 822
Fax: 385 (0) 1 275 415
Phone: 385 (0) 1 417 453
Phone: 385 (0) 1 450 677
Summary: Health systems reforms in Europe for the first time in history are faced with the standardization according to the common criteria. Following the integration processes initiated by the European Union (EU), the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO/EURO) started an intensive interdisciplinary technical and scientific activity to enable designing the new health care systems The aim of this project is to enable the participation in these scientific processes and to achieve an outcome which would directly be used in the integration processes between the health system in Croatia and health systems in Europe according to the criteria verified by the EU. This project has two goals: - to develop comparative methodology for the analysis of the health care systems of various types (from those systems based on market mechanisms to those based on social welfare); - to create information bank with data on reform processes based on scientific criteria which would be used in defining the new model of health care system in Croatia according to the European standards and experience.

Keywords: health systems, financing methods, the effects of market mechanisms, centralization-decentralization, health management, cost-containment, reforms, comparative studies, Croatia, Europe

Research goals: The aim of this research is to explore seven basic components ofhealth system reform in Europe according to scientificindicators. These components are: cost-containment, publicexpectations, decentralization, market mechanisms, quality assurance, health manpower development in new working situation. Using scientific criteria, this research will compare reform processes in the EU countries, health system restructuring in the former East European socialist countries, and changes in health system in Croatia. The expected results of the research will be manifested in two directions: - scientific contributionin developing methodology for the study of health systems reformsof various types; - information bank with data on reformprocesses in Europe according to scientific criteria to be usedin choosing the most suitable achievements and experiences of theexisting health systems in Europe suitable for Croatia healthsystem.

COOPERATION - PROJECTS


  1. Name of project: Pokretna ambulanta za žene
    Name of institution: Škola narodnog zdravlja "Andrija Štampar"
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Hrvatska

COOPERATION - INSTITUTIONS


  1. Name of institution: Zavod za organizaciju i ekonomiku zdravstva - Centre for International Technical Cooperation in the Field of Health
    Type of institution: Non-profit
    Type of cooperation: Joint project
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

  2. Name of institution: Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Joint publishing of scientific papers
    City: Lexington, USA
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