Measurement of Public Entrepreneurship in the Polish Health Sector

The paper presents an approach for the measurement of entrepreneurship in the public sector. A research model and the preliminary results of the research conducted at public health units in Poland were presented on the basis of theoretical research. The way the Public Sector operates nowadays, especially in highly developed countries, indicates crucial changes in the management of its entities, as well as new forms of managing the staff behaviour. The consequences are innovative solutions in the public services area, for example: acquiring additional resources for services financing. Efficiency of Health Care Services is related to two aspects: entrepreneurship takes place in the Public Subsector as the Health Care is considered to be a public good and its provision is an essential responsibility of the government; entrepreneurship also takes place in a private sector, as it has been defined above, the Health Care is a public good and therefore providing health care services cannot be limited only to public units. The study of entrepreneurship in the Health Care may bring very interesting results in dealing with improving the efficiency of the national Health Care systems, mainly in reducing the cost increase. Examining entrepreneurship in the Health Care Service may not only be helpful in its study (cognition) but may result as well in practical reforms of the Sector.