HEALTH MANAGEMENT. ROMANIA IN EUROPEAN CONTEXT

In Europe of the last decades, considerable efforts have been made to ensure access to high quality care, coping with challenges rarely encountered in other parts of the world such as the aging of population, research for finding and use of more effective drugs and some more advanced technology. In order to position Romania in the European context, we perform a comparative analysis, appealing to the indicators, such as years of healthy life, distribution of medical staff on various areas, the number of deaths focusing on emerging areas and cause of death. During the crisis Europe has drastically reduced health costs, both in public and in private sectors, but the most affected were emerging areas where: salaries were cut low, they stopped hiring, medical staff migrated in search of higher incomes and better working conditions. Successful experience of some EU countries have shown that some types of social policy and investment strategy in education in general and in education for prevention, in particular, lead to long-term positive impact on health