Health Economics – Need and Limits

Description
Nowadays health care systems consume more than 10 % of the GDP in European countries with health insurance systems and between 7 and 9 % in countries with state-run health care. Thus health care has become one of the most important economic branches for many countries.

(In: Polak, G. [Hg.]: medicine & health 2005, Going International, Wien 2004, S. 12-14)

Categories
Health Promotion ,Health Services ,Health Systems