A CLUSTER ANALYSIS OF THE ROMANIAN COUNTIES BASED ON THE NUMBER OF HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS AND HEALTH WORKFORCE: PUBLIC VERSUS PRIVATE SECTOR

Andreea Gabriela Zota () and Andra Radulescu ()
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Andreea Gabriela Zota: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Piata Romana, 6, Bucharest, Romania
Andra Radulescu: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Piata Romana 6, Bucharest, Romania

Management Research and Practice, 2019, vol. 11, issue 3, 5-17

Abstract: The purpose of this research is to cluster Romania’s 41 counties, along with the municipality of Bucharest, based on 2016 data retrieved from both public and the private health systems.This paper classifies the counties in 3 separate clusters, considered low, medium or high-level groups, using the K-means cluster analysis. Various factors are taken into consideration, such as: the number of hospitals, pharmacies, dental practices, as well as the number of physicians, pharmacists and mid-level practitioners. The major findings as the result of the analysis, are the emphasizing differences between Bucharest, Iasi, Cluj and all the other 39 counties regarding the number of healthcare providers and healthcare institutions.

Keywords: health system; private sector; public sector; k-means. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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