are also important quality changes that come with technological progress that also have monetary costs and benefits … attached. Modelling quality improvements, both in terms of benefits within the health system and outside (e.g. its impact on … life expectancy, ageing populations, productivity and GDP), is a challenging task, and no macroeconomic models to date have …

France’s health-care system offers high-quality care. Average health outcomes are good, public satisfaction with the … is expanding possibilities for life extension and quality, and spending is rising steadily, while an ageing population … agents and secure cost containment. Good-quality information and appropriate financing schemes would ensure stronger …

generating significant health care outputs, such as doctor’s consultations and hospital discharges, problems with the quality of … relatively weak mechanisms to regulate quality and prevent unnecessary care, further improving efficiency is also of key …

The Netherlands, as other OECD countries, faces the challenge of providing high quality health and long-term care … insufficient incentives for provision of quality services and expenditure control. The main challenges are to complete the … objectives. More competitive markets require, at least, provision of good quality information, appropriate financing and better …

widely acknowledged as providing a basket of universal services, with good quality primary and secondary care, while also …. Although the quality of care is generally good, in hospital care there is room to improve data and concern that overcrowding …