The diploma thesis entitled "Analysis of operating costs in selected health centers in the Republic of Slovenia." Is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part comprises four chapters, namely, presentations of cost accounting, cost accounting information, cost calculations and the legal and organizational side of the operation of public health centers. In the practical part, we focused on the comparison of costs in twelve health centers across Slovenia, namely: ZD Ljubljana, ZD Maribor, ZD Trbovlje, ZD Nova Gorica, ZD Sežana, ZD Postojna, ZD Slovenj Gradec, Osnovno zdravstvo Gorenjske, ZD Celje, ZD Koper, ZD Murska Sobota and ZD Vrhnika. From the annual reports for 2018, we obtained data on labor costs, materials, services and depreciation and compared them with each other. The main purpose of the thesis was to analyze the cost structure in the case of selected health centers in Slovenia. The descriptive method and the data analysis method of the annual reports were used.
We found that in health centers, which are larger and include the capacity of a larger number of patients, and consequently have a larger number of employees, such as ZD Ljubljana, ZD Maribor and Primary Health Care of Gorenjska, have the highest costs of materials, services, labor and depreciation with other health centers. ZD Postojna, ZD Slovenj Gradec and ZD Vrhnika achieved the lowest costs among the selected health centers. The share of labor costs in the analyzed health centers ranges from 62.00 % to 76.00 %, material costs from 8.20 % to 14.80 %, service costs represent from 10.70 % to 19.10 %, and depreciation costs represent from 2.40 % to 5.30 % of all (compared types) costs. The share of labor costs in all analyzed health centers thus exceeds 50% of all costs, where labor costs were the highest in most of the analyzed health centers, followed by costs of services, materials and finally depreciation costs. All but one of the analyzed health centers had the same order of the share of costs from the smallest to the largest.
The results of our research are useful for an overview of the costs of health centers in Slovenia, or an insight into the cost structure in a public health institution. Further work would require more similar research to determine the cost structure of health centers in more detail.
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