HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT

Sa？etak For many years, the healthcare sector has presented a challenge to healthcare management in Croatia, for a variety of reasons. One is the financial scale of the healthcare sector, which consumes a serious amount of public money and has a significant effect on the sustainability of the public financial resources. Another reason is that the total public expenditure on healthcare and the amount allocated to healthcare within the public expenditure as a whole do not automatically guarantee high quality in healthcare provision, although they do make a strong mark on it. End-users of the public healthcare services in Croatia expect a high level within the statutory healthcare provision, regardless of whether Croatia’s financial resources are capable of ensuring this. Even without these expectations, healthcare spending is constantly rising because of increased ageing in the population, coupled with the technological advances in the health-related industries. A third reason is the fact that in Croatia there is relatively little research into the healthcare sector by Healthcare management. Healthcare management ensures that specific outcomes are attained, that departments within a health facility are running smoothly, that the right people are in the right jobs, that people know what is expected of them, that resources are used efficiently and that all departments are working towards a common goal. However the visibility of the management profession within healthcare has been rising in recent years, due largely to the widespread problems many countries are having in balancing cost, access, and quality in their hospitals and health systems. The Healthcare management are concerned with the micro-economic evaluation of health-related technologies, the market balance in the production of healthcare services, the assessment of healthcare systems, planning and funding, the organization of health insurance, and inequalities in the healthcare system. In many countries the Healthcare management are at an early stage of development