Abstract. Health affects us all, so healthcare should involve us all. Health service providers have a duty to empower people to become more involved in their own healthcare, and in how services are delivered.

National Health Strategy 2014-2020 is a proof of the commitment decision makers in the industry and the Government in its entirety to ensure and promote health as a key determinant of society development and socially inclusive, territorial and economic as an engine of progress and prosperity of the nation and not as a burden. It is a tool framework to allow articulation farm to the European context and strategic directions set out in the Europe Strategy 2020.

This study focuses on analyzing national health strategy and attempt to identify the key factors leading to the success of this strategy. Conclusions we reached in this paper led toward hypothesis that it is imposed involvement and responsible action of the institutional actors and professionals in achieving the proposed goals, from service providers and local health authorities and to the central structures involved in the current paradigm change in the health sector to one that better match the direction towards modernity, progress and development who wants Romanian society.

Keywords: Public health, health outcomes, responsiveness, equity and financial protection, financial sustainability.