The public health care system reform as a barrier to local and regional development in Poland
The public health care system reform as a barrier to local and regional development in Poland

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the impact of health care reform on local and regional development in Poland. The first section presents the institutional determinants of local and regional development, which allow to determine the personal scope of the study. The second part focuses on the issue of the sources of costs local authorities incur which are required for the organization of health care, and thus define the scope of the study. The third part of the article shows how to finance health care and hence set the scale of the phenomenon. The final section presents the impact of health care reform on the financial position of the bodies responsible for local and regional development.

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