In 2005, the ratio of hospice/palliative care services in Romania was one service per 1.78 million inhabitants (see Table 3). This compares to one service per 1.07 million inhabitants in 2002.38
Table 3: Ratio of hospice/palliative care services per million population; Central and Eastern Europe (2005).
Ratio 1:
Estonia
0: 1.34m
Poland
1: 0.09m
Slovenia
1: 0.24m
Bulgaria
1: 0.18m
Hungary
1: 0.22m
Latvia
1: 0.28m
Lithuania
1: 0.34m
Czech Republic
1: 0.61m
Albania
1: 0.61m
Romania
1: 0.59m
Slovakia
1: 0.76m
Macedonia
1: 0.29m
Bosnia-Herzegovina
1: 1.11m
Croatia
1: 1.48m
Serbia
1: 2.13m
Source: EAPC Taskforce on the Development of Palliative Care in Europe (2005) A Map of Palliative Care Specific Resources in Europe. 4th Research Forum of the European Association for Palliative Care, Venice, Italy, 25th-27th May 2006/ Clark, D., and Wright, M. (2003) Transitions in End of Life Care: Hospice and Related Developments in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Buckingham: Open University Press.
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