health-care system is high, and average household out-of-pocket expenditures are low. As in other OECD countries, technology …France’s health-care system offers high-quality care. Average health outcomes are good, public satisfaction with the … by care providers, tackle the high spending on pharmaceuticals, strengthen the role of health insurers as purchasing …

The Czech health care system is doing well in terms of health outcomes compared to other Central East European … economies that inherited similar health systems after the transition and has been converging to OECD averages. However …, benchmarking the Czech health system to countries with comparable institutional setting points to potential for efficiency gains …

fragmentation of responsibilities in the healthcare system and a strong reliance on government regulations. The organisation of the …

. Disparities in access to care and health outcomes between the Roma and the rest of the population are large. Moreover, the health-care … and widely perceived mismanagement of public health-care spending. Health-care spending is currently about in line with …Despite improvements over the past few decades, Slovak health outcomes remains poor compared with most other OECD …

-economic divides are reflected in differences in health outcomes. To date the health-care system, centred on four health funds, is … are having to rapidly expand the number of places in medical schools and nurse training because large cohorts of health-care …, the demand for health care is expanding rapidly due to population growth and ageing. Also, the country’s wide socio …

ways to understand their health options and take more control over their health decisions. But this is not an easy task …. Professionals continue to use medical jargon, drug instructions are not always clear, and health information in clinical settings … democratising access to health information, providing new ways to improve health knowledge and support self care. Nonetheless, when …

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 …