further fostering generic substitution. Impediments to competition among health insurance funds should be reconsidered and the …

Despite progress over the past two decades Mexico?s health and education indicators remain well below the average of … the OECD and some of its Latin American emerging market peers. Health insurance coverage is incomplete, especially for low …-income families, and access to health services is highly uneven. There are several separate vertically integrated insurance networks …

Greek health outcomes compare favourably with the OECD average. However, the health care system is seen as not working … well by the population. One source of dissatisfaction is the high proportion of private household spending on health …, including informal payments, while public health spending relative to GDP is one of the lowest in the OECD. This situation leads …

The highly regarded Austrian health system delivers good quality and easily accessible services, but is costly. Its … competition opportunities are de facto limited in most health markets. The system operates therefore on a supply-driven basis, and … of good health outcomes and suffer important differences between social groups, raising risks for the future. This …

Since the transformation following the Communist era, Poland has matched improvements in health outcomes of the most … developed OECD countries, although without catching up the ground lost during the 1970s and 1980s. The health status of the … population remains relatively poor, although after controlling for per capita income health outcomes are only slightly below the …

Based on the latest available data up to 2009, the health status of the Hungarian population is among the poorest in … socioeconomic status of the population and lifestyle risks, it also reflects the relatively limited effectiveness of the health care … system, for which relatively low levels of resources have been available: total health spending amounted to 7.4% of GDP in …

This paper investigates the vulnerabilities of health care systems in OECD and BRIICS countries to adverse secular … setting of health care systems, such as the public-private mix and the main sources of revenues, and the need to balance …

This paper presents a set of indicators to assess health care system performance. It also presents new comparative data … on health care policies and institutions for OECD countries. This set of indicators allows the empirical characterisation … of health care systems and the identification of groups of countries sharing similar health institutions. It also helps …

should be explored, while ensuring that insurers and health providers are given the correct incentives.<p> This working paper …

significantly in the absence of structural reforms of pension and, especially, health-care programmes.<P>États-Unis : Rétablir la …