TY - JOUR
TI - The European hospitals’ functioning determinants with special emphasis on the human resources issue
AU - Dubas-Jakóbczyk, Katarzyna
AU - Domagała, Alicja
TI - The European hospitals’ functioning determinants with special emphasis on the human resources issue
AB - 
	The aim of the article is to present the scope of determinants influencing hospitals’ functioning in contemporary Europe with emphasize put on the health sector human recourses issue. Multiplicity of the functions realized by the hospitals units relates to the plurality of determinants which influence their present situation as well as long-term transformation processes. The determinants can be categorized into three main groups: these related to the demand side of the hospital services, their supply and determinants being the results of the social and economic changes. Regardless of the differences existing between health systems in specific countries – all European countries are facing similar problems of increasing health care costs, strong need of efficiency improvement and deficits of medical staff. In case of the hospital sector the key issue is number of beds reduction and transformation of the hospitals’ organizational form
VL - 2012
IS - Volume 10, Issue 3
PY - 2013
SN - 1731-7398
C1 - 2084-2627
SP - 143
EP - 153
DO - 10.4467/20842627OZ.13.016.1164
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zdrowie-publiczne-i-zarzadzanie/article/uwarunkowania-funkcjonowania-szpitali-we-wspolczesnej-europie-ze-szczegolnym-uwzglednieniem-zasobow-kadrowych
KW - health care costs
KW - hospitals
KW - health care reform
KW - hospital services
KW - human resources for health