In Eastern European countries [ 6 ], a higher need for health system financing is observed based on the dynamic analysis carried out in the period 2000–2017, which reveals that public expenditure has been decreasing in most countries (the maximum reduction being reached by Bulgaria and the Czech Republic), while government taxation for social insurance had an increasing trend in most countries.
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Approaches to Health Efficiency across the European Space through the Lens of the Health Budget Effort.
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In terms of health status, in line with the general European trend, Romania has been on a positive trend during 2007–2013, with an increase in life expectancy from 71.2 years in 2000 to 75.3 years in 2017, which is below the European limit for the EU (80.9 years).
- The dynamics of the social protection expenditure represented by administrative costs has a polynomial evolution on the Pearson correlation coefficients with the dependent variable defined by the equation: (2) y = −0.0771x + 1.3205 Over the period 2013–2020, the Pearson coefficients of the financial indicator of social protection translated into administrative costs were aligned on a decreasing trend according to the regression equation: (3) y = −0.0291x + 0.7958 This shows that there is a 3% margin of reduction in financial allocations for social protection or for strengthening the health security of the population, which, in the context of the pandemic, has meant a pessimism expressed by the entire European population regarding vaccination.