Gualtiero Ricciardi
Chair of Hygiene, University of Cassino
Elisabetta de Vito
Chair of Hygiene, University of Cassino
Keywords:
Health , Health systems, Health services
Abstract
The state of health of the world population has costantly improved in re-cent years. However, quality of life and life expectancy show huge varia-tions in the different demografic regions of the world. To explain such differences three main factors can be considered:
1 - patterns of disease, which are largely determined by geography and climate;
2 - human behaviour;
3 - health services funding, organization and management.
The paper develops a discussion on these issues, focusing on correlation between health systems methods of funding and management and state of health of the world population.
