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<p>Implementation of health protection requires effective quantitative methods of its evaluation. Assessment could be based on usage of synthetic indices which aggregate couple input variables into a single measure. In this paper, the exploitation of a new synthetic index (by the author called HAI—the Healthcare Aggregated Index) was proposed with the aim of the assessment and long-term interstate comparisons of healthcare systems of the EU countries. Using taxonomic methodology, HAI involves three variables: the number of hospital beds, the number of physicians and the public expenditures on healthcare. HAI utilisation includes dynamic interstate comparisons of national healthcare systems of the different exploitations of human, physical and financial resources. The HAI application to assessment of twenty European Union Member States’ healthcare systems revealed an effect of substitution between health-care resources within the slight international differentiation of the health protection level and the minor dynamic of changes in time series.</p>
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Implementation of health protection requires effective quantitative methods of its evaluation. Assessment could be based on usage of synthetic indices which aggregate couple input variables into a single measure. In this paper, the exploitation of a new synthetic index (by the author called HAI—the Healthcare Aggregated Index) was proposed with the aim of the assessment and long-term interstate comparisons of healthcare systems of the EU countries. Using taxonomic methodology, HAI involves three variables: the number of hospital beds, the number of physicians and the public expenditures on healthcare. HAI utilisation includes dynamic interstate comparisons of national healthcare systems of the different exploitations of human, physical and financial resources. The HAI application to assessment of twenty European Union Member States’ healthcare systems revealed an effect of substitution between health-care resources within the slight international differentiation of the health protection level and the minor dynamic of changes in time series.

The EU Member States’ national healthcare systems compared using the single synthetic index

Department of Organisation and Healthcare Management

Economics and Business Review

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Implementation of health protection requires effective quantitative methods of its evaluation. Assessment could be based on usage of synthetic indices which...

The EU Member States’ national healthcare systems compared using the single synthetic index

Published Online: Jul 20, 2021

Page range: 37 - 49

Received: Dec 19, 2020

Accepted: Jun 25, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18559/ebr.2021.2.4

Keywords
comparisons of healthcare, healthcare systems in EU, quantitative assessment of healthcare, aggregated index of healthcare, HAI index, numerical taxonomy

© 2021 Maciej Jankowiak, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The EU Member States’ national healthcare systems compared using the single synthetic index

Published Online: Jul 20, 2021

Page range: 37 - 49

Received: Dec 19, 2020

Accepted: Jun 25, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18559/ebr.2021.2.4

Keywordscomparisons of healthcare, healthcare systems in EU, quantitative assessment of healthcare, aggregated index of healthcare, HAI index, numerical taxonomy

© 2021 Maciej Jankowiak, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
comparisons of healthcare, healthcare systems in EU, quantitative assessment of healthcare, aggregated index of healthcare, HAI index, numerical taxonomy