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Item Adjusting the 5C pentagon for better health policymaking: observing the leading behavioural risks factors (diet, smoking, and alcohol consumption)(General Association of the Economists in Romania (AGER), 2023) Bițoiu, Teodora; Nicolescu, Cristina ElenaSmoking, alcohol consumption, and dietary risks pertain to the goods that can destabilisethe market should their production trigger too many negative externalities and not enough researchto counterbalance them. Moreover, all three are among the factors that, connected to ever-presentrisky behaviours, drive the most death and disability combined (the other two risk factors being themetabolic ones and the environmental/occupational risks). Therefore, they are to be considered as relevant to both the perceived health of the population and analysed in relation to the data onsmokers, alcohol consumers, and poor diet impact.However, the design of these health policies must be adapted to the pattern of national culture of Romania, increasing the degree of their acceptance by the population. This is particularly true whenless-damage alternatives are present in the market. Policymakers should incentivize their use overmore-damaging products. In fact, the existence of better alternatives deepens the market failure thata sub-optimal allocation of resources produces when consumers opt for more damaging productsover better goods. Clearly, the objective of policymakers ought to be to differentiate based on therisk profile of the products present on the market.Item The Healthcare Public System – Does Standardization Withhold the Bucket from Leaking?(Sciendo, 2017-12) Bițoiu, Teodora; Nicolescu, Cristina Elena; Rădulescu, CrinaThe public healthcare system is heavily influenced by the 3C trilemma - cost - coverage - choice. The paper's argument tackles the fact that should the public decision on improving capacity be leaning towards universal coverage in would result in efficiency losses and, in an attempt to control the costs it would limit patients' choice. Should priority be given to performance or value? The present paper deals with the compromise between the equity and efficiency, a leaky bucket that becomes more visible in the struggle to build capacity and intervene in the market by setting standards. Setting healthcare standards is a global concern, the 3rd Sustainable Development Goal is a clear proof of that the aim to emphasise and better analyse two of the most influential variables: efficiency and equity. All in all, what we argue is that the current leaky bucket is a trade-off between choice, coverage, and cost. For a complex public service like healthcare, targeting a full coverage and multiple choice would incur huge costs and, cutting costs considerably restricts both the choice and coverage. The cost is influenced by the production capacity use when the activity has large fixed costs.Item The Management of Municipal Waste through Circular Economy in the Context of Smart Cities Development(IEEE Access, 2019-07-15) Aceleanu, Mirela Ionela; Șerban, Andreea Claudia; Suciu, Marta Christina; Bițoiu, TeodoraThe paper focus on the topic of circular economy in the context of sustainable development, as one major objective of today's societies. Circular economy is mostly characterized by the need to improve the use of resources,by reducing waste and recycling. Under the sustainable development broader circumstances, circular economy becomes one of the important part of providing resources for the future generations, based on intra and intergenerational solidarity, having as starting points the 3 R (reuse, recirculation, recycling) and extending the lifecycle of products. Also, a circular economy is an important factor to develop the smart cities. The smart city can be understood as a sustainable city, a city well performing in economy, governance, but also in environment and living. The paper aims to identify a set of major actions recommended at the European Union level in order to promote this vision. It aims as well to highlight some of the economic and institutional barriers that might be faced at all economic levels. The EU recommendations associated with the trends of increasing the prices of raw materials and also with the need to reduce the import dependency such as better ensure the energetic security and sustainability by respecting the imperatives of environment protection, require a focus on efforts towards these directions. Starting from these approaches, we analyzed the progress achieved by Romania in the last ten years and the extent to which the country is prepared to implement an efficient management of municipal waste in order to promote the circular economy vision. Based on the progresses obtained in the last decade, we appreciate that Romanian decision makers had understood the importance of circular economy and had taken some specific action dedicated to the focus on this direction. Although some of the indicators referring to recycling show an improvement in Romania, it still has to improve performance in this field. We consider that one of the main challenges for the future in terms of circular economy refers to the further development of the sectors associated with the circularity of resource and with the emergence of employment opportunities, based both on an active involvement of public and private sectors.Item The Smart Community: Strategy Layers for a New Sustainable Continental Framework(MDPI, 2023-03-22) Stoicescu, Vlad; Bițoiu, Teodora; Vrabie, CătălinThe topic investigated in this article is a comparison, contrast, and integration effort of European strategies for sustainable development with the evolving market initiatives that are beginning to fuel the fourth industrial revolution. Several regulatory initiatives from continental bodies come into effect to radically change access to finances for business development, based on sustainability goals, and an analysis of the legislation and trends becomes essential for an effective pivot tactic in the face of adversity, as well as change management policies to pre-emptively adapt and perform. The general research question is "what the strategic tools are best employed to overcome the hurdles laid forth by the drastic changes legally required for a sustainable future?" The research methods include a quantitative analysis of norms, regulations, and legislation, including strategic initiatives circulated in the European Union governmental bodies, integrated with qualitative research of the literature. The study finds and draws synergies between national strategies that have recently been drafted or are currently evolving with sustainability-centric initiatives such as the hydrogen initiative, the nuclear initiative, the natural gas initiative, the renewables initiative, the synthetics, and biomass initiative, the ESG initiative, the digital initiative. The findings are to contribute to the business administration field by providing an appropriate image of the organizational design model in the sustainability era, and a strategy framework to build the optimum long-term vision founded on continental regulatory initiatives that have come into effect.