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Study regarding financial sustainability in Romania’s health system

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  • Tatiana BOGDAN

    (“Lucian Blaga” University, Sibiu, Romania)

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The Romanian healthcare system faces the problem of insufficient resources to meet the anticipated healthcare needs of the citizens. Ageing population, longer life expectancy, increasing demand for services, new technologies and new medicines all contribute to the financial pressure. Therefore, health system financial sustainability represents a priority comprising activities which imposes a strategic approach at national level. With a define purpose of supporting a financially sustainable and high performing health system, the paper analyses the health financing policy in Romania and recommends options for strengthening health financing policy. In conclusion, the Romanian healthcare system needs to reinvent itself if it is to emerge stronger from the current economic challenges.

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  • Tatiana BOGDAN, 2015. "Study regarding financial sustainability in Romania’s health system," Theoretical and Applied Economics, Asociatia Generala a Economistilor din Romania - AGER, vol. 0(Special(I), pages 45-55.
    • Handle: RePEc:agr:journl:v:xxii:y:2015:i:special(ii):p:45-55
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