The objective of this thesis is to examine the nature of health care system
change in the Czech Republic and Hungary after the collapse of communism.
In order to do so, the thesis focuses mainly on Europeanization and New
Institutionalism as competing approaches in explaining domestic changes in
Central and Eastern European Countries. While doing so, first this study tries
to explore whether Europeanization is one of the main determinants in the
transition process of the health care systems of the Czech Republic and
Hungary and discusses the EU-level policies, laws and regulations related to
the health care sector. Second, the study looks through the historical legacy
and path dependency theories as branches of the New Institutionalist
approaches to investigate the transition of the health care systems of case
countries. The review of the related literature and empirical case studies
exhibit that the transformation process of the health care systems of the
Czech Republic and Hungary were possibly affected by many factors and it
would be misleading to attribute all consequences to only one determinant. In
this respect, the main argument is that the Europeanization effect is weak
compared to the New Institutionalism approach in explaining the transition
process of health care systems of Hungary and the Czech Republic / however,
there are strong opportunities for EU institutions to shape the future contours
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of health care systems and public health programs in Hungary and the Czech
Republic.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12611271/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 December 2009 |
| Creators | Guzel, Safinaz |
| Contributors | Yalman, Galip |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for METU campus |
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