期刊名称：Annals of the University of Oradea : Economic Science
印刷版ISSN：1222-569X
电子版ISSN：1582-5450
出版年度：2009
卷号：XVIII
期号：02
出版社：University of Oradea
摘要：Health is one of the most important assets for human beings, since it allows people to fully use their
capacity. Poor or compromised health reduces the well-being of individuals, by affecting their future
incomes, wealth and consumption. For policy implications, it is notorious how health can affect not just the
economic outcomes of a person, but of an entire country. Keeping this view in mind, the aim of the paper is
to analyze clusters and distances among the EU’s Member States in terms of health standards, by using the
Self-Organizing Map (SOM) artificial neural network methodology.
