HEALTH ECONOMICS AND HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION: NEW APPROACHES

Abstract

Health services have the biggest share in the national income of developed countries. Also the share of health expenditure in the family budgets has similar characteristics. As parallel, the both of shares have been increasing in the developing countries. Determining this situation in the world is important for health economics. According to the studies, health expenditures are not only consumption expenditures but also investment expenditures. But its effects influences not on itself but on services and production sectors. In other way, indirectly effect of health expenditure to economic growth is high.Increasing demand and cost in hospitals necessitate of increasing productivity and efficiency. The most important way of increasing productivity and efficiency is “management and organization”. Since growth of hospital, augmentation in costs and its complex structure, the importance of management and administration of hospital is increased. It is became discrete discipline and branch in western countries especially in USA.