"...it is now evident that the provision of healthcare services is not limited to the care provided and the way services operate.
Before that, there is a background of economic, social, administrative, and other parameters that play a crucial role in shaping the "character" of healthcare systems...
Furthermore, the rise in the standard of living and as a result, the increase in the consumption of healthcare services, combined with the increasing pressures on the cost of these services, mainly due to the rapid development of relevant diagnostic and therapeutic technology, have made the economic background perhaps the most decisive factor in the evolution of healthcare systems...

...publishing efforts like this, which are characterized by unique completeness in the topics they approach, constitute an ideal way to highlight and study this new reality that is being shaped in the field of healthcare..."

Professor Georgios Kreatsas, President of the Medical School, Vice Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens