THE ROLE OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN ROMANIAN INFANT’S VACCINATION DEBATE

Abstract

Lately, in Romanian health care system there are several issues and debates about the importance of vaccines at the infants. Because of some rumors from USA, about the risks of vaccines (there were unproved cases which claimed that the vaccines would have induce autism to children) for infants less than 12 months old, the whole Europe, and also Romania, opened a dispute around these vaccines. In every healthcare system a key element is represented by quality. This means that everything in the interior of a hospital or clinic must have certain quality standards assured by the Healthcare Ministry, in order to provide the best quality for the patients.In other words, the concept of quality can be seen as a characteristic or property that each health care system must have. In our article we will focus on what attributes must have a qualitative healthcare system and how these attributes should influence the decision of infants’ vaccination.

Keywords

• hospitals; quality management; patient; infant vaccination; decision tree