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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Health Care Performance in the Czech Republic and Poland

subject

health indicatorshealth care systemsPolandTOPSISperformanceCzech Republic

description

Health is considered as the most important value in a person's life. It follows, therefore, that health care evaluation is very important aspect from a societal point of view. Evaluating of health care is an essential component to determine the functioning of national health care system and to improve its performance. The paper is focused on the evaluation and comparison of health care performance in the Czech Republic and Poland based on a multicriteria analysis. The research is monitoring the selected health care indicators for the period of six years from 2014 to 2019. The obtained data are processed by TOPSIS method. the output of the research is the ranking of the countries of the European Union according to the level of health care performance, the results of the Czech Republic and Poland are also compared. Based on the results achieved it was found that the Czech Republic is one of the above-average EU countries in terms of health care performance in the period under review and that the performance of health care in the Czech Republic is on the higher level than in Poland.