Public-private mix and performance of health care systems in CEE and CIS countries

Błażej Łyszczarz ()

No 74/2015, Working Papers from Institute of Economic Research

Abstract: The role of the public and private sector in health care systems remains one of the crucial problems of these systems' operation. The purpose of this research is to identify the relationships between the performance of health systems in CEE and CIS (Central and Eastern Europe and Commonwealth of Independent State) countries and the mix of public-private sector in the health care of these countries. The study uses a zero unitarization method to construct three measures of health system performance in the following areas: (1) resources; (2) services; and (3) health status. The values of these measures are correlated with the share of public financing that represents the public-private mix in the health systems. The data used is from World Health Organization’s Health for All Database for 23 CEE and CIS countries and comprises the year 2010. The results show that the performance of health systems in the countries investigated is positively associated with a higher proportion of public financing. The strongest relationship links public financing with performance in the area of services production. For policy makers, these results imply that health systems in post-communist transition economies could be susceptible to a decreasing role of the state and that growing reliance on the market mechanism in health care can deteriorate the operation of these systems.

Keywords: health care system; public-private mix; transition economies, health status (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H51 I11 P36 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-04, Revised 2015-04
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