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

, the demand for health care is expanding rapidly due to population growth and ageing. Also, the country’s wide socio …-economic divides are reflected in differences in health outcomes. To date the health-care system, centred on four health funds, is … accommodating demand for private health care. However, there are challenges and tensions in the system. Currently the authorities …

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 …

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

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 …

and good health. Thailand’s path from a low-income to an upper-middle-income country over recent decades is widely hailed …

The Netherlands, as other OECD countries, faces the challenge of providing high quality health and long-term care … services to an ageing population in a cost-efficient manner. In the health care sector, reforms have aimed at introducing more … transition to regulated competition in health care provision, to strengthen the role of health insurers as purchasing agents and …

, with often a low pension. Moreover, South Africa has a dual, public and private, health care system. Half of the country …’s health-care spending goes to the private sector, which covers only 16% of the population. Moreover, the health care system … fails to deliver affordable quality services. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the unequal distribution of health care …