Comparison of Healthcare Performance and its Determinants in European Countries Using TOPSIS Approach
Comparison of Healthcare Performance and its Determinants in European Countries Using TOPSIS Approach

Summary/Abstract: The paper provides a comparison of European countries with respect to their healthcare. Two dimensions were taken into account. The first set of criteria contains the resources provided by the healthcare sector to the inhabitants, such as the number of practising physicians and the number of hospital beds per one hundred thousand inhabitants, and the resources provided to the sector by financing entities, such as health care expenditures. The second dimension reflects the output sphere which results from the quality of healthcare system performance; this set of criteria includes life expectancy, the share of people with good or very good perceived health, and the infant mortality rate. Countries were ranked using the TOPSIS method. Results reveal that resources are crucial to the assessment.

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