This policy brief provides a discussion of the relationships between austerity, Greece's macroeconomic performance … significant reduction in healthcare expenditure, which made Greece more vulnerable to the recent pandemic. Finally, it shows how …, debt sustainability, and the provision of healthcare and other social services over the last decade. It explains that …

We review Greek public sector healthcare policies and health-related outcomes since 2010.We find that excess spending … relatively favorable. However, especially prior to Covid-19, public healthcare spending had been compressed to potentially … advancing structural healthcare reforms are needed to improve the efficiency and equity of the Greek healthcare system …

Greece went into recession in 2009, after a decade of flourishing economic growth fluctuating annually around 4 percent … 2010, with a subsequent marginal reduction. The Eurozone countries and the IMF provided three rescue packages to Greece …. The first economic adjustment program was signed in May 2010 between Greece and Troika (the European Commission, The …