Entrepreneurship in the Health Care System in Poland: Selected Issues

Jacek Klich ()
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Jacek Klich: Cracow University of Economics

Chapter Chapter 9 in Engines of Economic Prosperity, 2021, pp 159-178 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The aim of the chapter is to identify the main obstacles to entrepreneurial initiatives and activities in the health care sector in Poland after the economic and political transformation of 1989. A review of the literature (desk-top analysis) enriched by statistical data. The chapter starts from a concise picture of Semashko model of health care inherited from the Soviet era. Then key features of the health care reform initiated in 1999 are presented accompanied by the development of the private sector in primary care, ambulatory care, stomatology, and wholesale of pharmaceuticals since 1989.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-76088-5_9

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