CHANGES IN HEALTH FACILITIES IN THE REGIONS OF SLOVAKIA
CHANGES IN HEALTH FACILITIES IN THE REGIONS OF SLOVAKIA

Author(s): Viera Papcunova, Jarmila Hudáková, Roman Vavrek, Ingrid Varešinská
Subject(s): Regional Geography, Welfare systems, Health and medicine and law, Welfare services
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: health facilities; hospitals; ambulances; regions of Slovakia;
Summary/Abstract: The health systems of individual countries differ not only in terms of organizational security, but also in terms of financing. Significant changes in the healthcare system began to be implemented in Slovakia after 1989, when healthcare services became mixed goods from purely public goods. In practice, this meant the entry of the private sector into the field of providing health services. The aim of the article is to evaluate the development in the field of healt facilities in the regions of Slovakia on the basis of selected indicators. On the basis of the analysis of secondary data obtained from the Statistical office of the Slovak Republic for the period 2000-2021, it emerged that there were significant changes in the number of health facilities in individual regions in 2009, also as a result of legislative changes regarding the location and scope of these facilities. At the level of Slovakia, in 2021, compared to the year 2000, the number of health facilities increased by 20%, but the number of health workers increased only slightly by 0.6%.

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