The Healthcare System of Hungary in Transition
The Healthcare System of Hungary in Transition

Summary/Abstract: Processes of globalisation can enhance the efficiency of health care but they cannot make it cheaper. Its main reasons are inherent in demographic problems (ageing society – narrowing circle of contribution payers), slowness of the change of structure due to the lack of a need for integration, changing morbidity, low level of the utilisation of information technology, deficiencies of the aims set concerning well informed patients (patient rights), under-utilization of the possibilities of telemedicine and obviously in the financing of health care. What is healthcare? Could the institutions of the social welfare state be successfully built after the political transition in Hungary (1989)? Is the changing of the Hungarian health care system essential according to the operation of the system? What are the main lessons to be learned to serve the Central– East - European region, compared with the experience of the more developed countries? Due to limitation restrictions, the Hungarian public health situation is discussed in this publication rather schematically from the 1950s onwards and in more details after the political transition (1989).

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