A MODEL OF ASSESSMENT OF TERRITORIAL DISPARITIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES IN ROMANIA
A MODEL OF ASSESSMENT OF TERRITORIAL DISPARITIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES IN ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: Considering the issue of disparities in health care services, we present– as a model of disparity assessment – the model of distribution of health careactivities per the eight development regions existing in Romania according to Law 151/1998: 1. North-West; 2. Centre; 3. North-East; 4. South-East; 5. South Muntenia; 6. Bucharest-Ilfov; 7. South-West Oltenia; 8. West In Romania, the territorial-administrative structure consists of a regional level(41 districts and the Municipality of Bucharest), corresponding to the NUTS 3 statistical level, and a local level (320 towns and cities, of which 103 municipalities, 2860 communes and 12956 villages). According to Law 151/1998, eight development regions were set up, as “a framework for establishing, implementing and assessing the regional development policy as well as for collecting specific statistical data in accordance with the EUROSTAT rules for the second level of territorial classification, NUTS 2, applied in Europe.

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