THE MEDICAL CARE AND LIFE IN HEALTH EXPECTANCY IN AGING EUROPE

The demographic changes in the European Union, that have been observed for many years, clearly highlighted the global aging process, which has a huge effect on reproduction, mortality and migration. In an aging society the health care system plays an important role. Due to the increasing number of elderly population the demand for care services and medical care is increasing, and thus increase of medical personnel, number of places in hospitals, sanatoriums, health resorts and hospices. Nowadays, it is important to prolong life in good health, which is not accompanied by disability or limitations of life-related activity due to health conditions. The main objective of this paper is spatial analysis of medical care system development and life in health expectancy assessment of the European Union countries population. The application of spatial analysis to investigate this process will allow to establish existing relationships between the studied regions with respect to this phenomenon. To estimate changes in health status of the population will use summary measures of population health that divided into the measure of the health expectancies and measures of health gap. All calculations and maps were made in the statistical program R CRAN and Microsoft Excel. The real data from Eurostat was used for the analysis.