Author: St. Gladilov and N. Veleva
Title: Demand and supply in the health care. Basic terms and their application in the Bulgarian health care reform condition. - 5, 2005, ¹ 1, 32-36.
Key Words (author's): Demand, Supply, Health, Health care, Needs.
Key Words (MEDLINE): Marketing of health services--methods; Health services needs and demand; Task performance and analysis; Physician's role; Sick role.
Topic: Health Economics
Abstract
Market mechanisms widely penetrate into Bulgarian health care management under the conditions of a reform. These mechanisms have specificity that has an impact on the market forces: demand and supply, which in health care have a specific character of their own. This report aims by analyzing data from available literature to cast a light on the problem and to provide generally accepted terms for demand and supply in health care. Terms are interpreted in accordance with Michael Grossman's „human capital theory". Physician and patient role in demand and supply in health care is analyzed, as well as the determinants that have impact on demand and supply in health care.
Address for correspondence: D-r St. Gladilov, MU Sofia, Public Health Faculty;
N. Veleva, MU Pleven; Tel.: 064/884196; e-mail: [email protected]
