Finansowanie ochrony zdrowia w Polsce w porównaniu z innymi krajami Unii Europejskiej
The financing of health protection in Poland to with other countries of the European Union

Summary/Abstract: Purpose of this paper is the comparative analysis of the health protection expenditures in Poland and other countries of the European Union. The analysis was concentrated on two basic indicators showing the level of the health protection financing: total expenditure on health protection as percentage of GDP and per capita total expenditure on health protection at international dollar rate. One examined also the participation of public and private expenditures in financing of the health protection in countries of EU. The analysis includes 2000 and 2004 Years. The level of the health protection expenditures, on both in the account to GDP and in per capita, was in examined years in countries of EU diverse, especially large disproportions appeared in the seizure per capita. The health protection financing in Poland to with other countries characterizes the extra-low level, both absolute rates (per capita expenditures in USD) as and relative (percentage of GDP) locate our country on final positions among countries of EU. Poland locates high only in case of the participation of private expenditures in entire expenditures on the health protection.

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