This Selected Issues paper on the Slovak Republic reviews efficiency and reform of the health sector. The immediate challenge for the health care system in the Slovak Republic is to improve health sector outcomes while containing public health spending. The Slovak health care system is...

In this paper, the local polynomial fit based on the kernel weighted local-likelihood function and the location of the change point is considered as an estimator for the regression function or its νth derivative. Using the data sets split by the location, we estimate the left and right parts of...