09.05.2020 | Editorial
Awaiting the “catharsis”
Erschienen in: The European Journal of Health Economics | Ausgabe 4/2021
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Catharsis is a metaphor used in Aristotle’s Poetics. He compares the effects of a sudden tragedy to the effects of an anticipated catharsis in the mind and body of the sufferer. The notion of catharsis is closely related to “purification” or “purgation”. In 2008 it was the “global economic pandemic” that infected world economy and society in general. Bailout rescue funds were widely distributed by the European Commission, the Central European Bank, and the IMF to EU-Member states, and the main question arising refers to the extent to which these funds induced a “purification” of the chronic problems of the Greek health system. The main purpose of this editorial is to review the plethora of measures implemented in Greece during the economic crisis, to assess their degree of success in leading to the much awaited ‘catharsis’. …Anzeige