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 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 …

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 …

life while decreasing after middle age. To be able to reflect these trends in the OECD Strategic Public Health Planning for …

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 …