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Health Management: Case Study of Clinical Hospitals in Croatia

The Croatian health system is a topic that has occupied Croatian media space for a long time, that is often politicized and that is an obvious problem for the country, mostly because of its debts, to which no adequate solution has been found yet. However, there is one solution – increased financial resources aimed at settling debts for the past period and financing future liabilities. How to achieve this depends on the government that defines the allocation of health care resources and the cost of health services, but it also depends on health care institutions doing business rationally. The Croatian health system is most similar to the Bismarck financing model. It is based on the model of compul- sory social health insurance which represents the health system financed by the employees and their allocations for health care for the entire nation. Thus, it is easy to conclude that health care resources are largely limited and, in the future, they will be even more limited if the number of employees decreases in the years to come. Under these conditions, the Croatian health care system operates only within the framework it can “cover” financially and transfers liabilities in the future period. This paper will present financial management in health care, especially by using an example of larges hospitals in Croatia, i.e. clinical hospitals, and give an overview of the largest financial indicators of these hospitals. The purpose of the paper is to present a financial management model of the hospitals with the aim of finding solutions to the financial improvement of hospital operations by retaining the same or increase the quality of services and health workers guaranteed by the Health Care Act.

health management ; hospitals ; financial management

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