Projects

AHEAD - Ageing, Health Status and Determinants of Health Expenditure (6RP)

RNDr. Viliam Pálenik, PhD., h.doc.

Members of project
Ing. Vladimír Kvetan

• Basic informations
• Characteristics
• Outputs

• The project was focused on examining the health status. The main objective was to find the relations between health status, ageing of population and health care expenditures. Main goal was to evaluate health status of population (self assessment of health status and utilization of health care) based on age. This analysis using modelling approaches was the base of long-term forecast of the health care system utilization and financing.
  The Institute of Economic Research Slovak Academy of Sciences participated on the project as a member of consortium based on ENEPRI www.enepri.org, research network. The project consortium consists of 18 research organizations, from which 4 of NMS (H, PL. EST, SK, BG). Other institutions cover the key countries of EU 15. The main coordinator of the project is CEPS (BE) www.ceps.be

• Institute is involved to the project in two work packages (WP)
  WPII – Health and Morbidity in the Accession Countries
  Institute was responsible to work out country specific study for Slovakia. Works have been done in the period 2/2004 – 11/2004. The was focused on description of demographic thrends and health characteristics for Slovakia in the past 10 years. The main contribution was the examining of self assessment oh health status and health services utilization by particular qualitative characteristics (age, gender, social and economic activity). This research was based on data from CINDY project, which has been offered by Institute of Public Health in Banská Bystrica. Using maximum likelihood methods (logit, probit models) the impact of qualitative characteristics to self assessment of health status and health care system utilization has been examined. The report is published in:
  
  Kvetan, Vladimír; Páleník, Viliam. Health and Morbidity in the Accession Countries. Country Report - Slovak Republic: AHEAD project from the European Commission under the 6th Research Framework Programme. Brussels : European Network of Economic Policy Research Institutes, December 2006. 69 s. ENEPRI Research Report. 30. ISBN 92-9074-648-0.
  
  WP IX – Development of scenarios for Health Expenditure in the Acession Countries
  The main goal of the study was to forecast income and expenditure sides of health care system as well as general public budget. The forecast was based on actuarial model that has been developed in cooperation with International Labour Organisation (ILO). Forecast and scenarios were made using different assumptions of demographic trends, economic development and in valuing of health services.
  
  Outcome of the study is delivered for publication

• Kvetan, Vladimír – Páleník, Viliam: HEALTH AND MORBIDITY IN THE ACCESSION COUNTRIES COUNTRY REPORT – SLOVAK REPUBLIC. ENEPRI RESEARCH REPORT NO. 30, AHEAD WP2, DECEMBER 2006
  
  Kvetan, Vladimír – Páleník, Viliam: HEALTH AND MORBIDITY IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC. ENEPRI POLICY BRIEF NO. 6, DECEMBER 2007
  
  Kvetan, Vladimír – Páleník, Viliam - Mlýnek, Martin - Radvanský, Marek: HEALTH EXPENDITURE SCENARIOS IN THE NEW MEMBER STATES, COUNTRY REPORT ON SLOVAKIA. ENEPRI RESEARCH REPORT NO. 48, AHEAD WP9, DECEMBER 2007