This paper aims to shed light on the contribution of health care and other determinants to the health status of the … population and to provide evidence on whether or not health care resources are producing similar value for money across OECD … countries. First, it discusses the pros and cons of various indicators of the health status, concluding that mortality and …

This study reviews health-system reforms in OECD countries over the past several decades and their impact on the …” level of resources to health care (macroeconomic efficiency); and ensuring microeconomic efficiency in service provision … access are now being undertaken in a number of countries. In light of new evidence of serious problems with health …

This paper reviews the performance of French health care system from an economic viewpoint. It also provides some … policy recommendations. The health system in France is regarded as delivering high quality services, with freedom of choice … therefore not surprising that the French population is relatively satisfied with the health system. As this paper points out …

An ambitious reform to increase efficiency of the Portuguese health care system was launched in 2002. In contrast to … health sector, making changes essentially irreversible. The reform has two main aims: to deliver better-quality public health … services than at present but at no higher cost; and to reduce the underlying growth rate of public health-care spending over …

This paper reviews the performance of Polish health care system from an economic perspective. High on the reform agenda … of the government for several years, a new national health insurance system entered into force on 1 January 1999. This … further improvement of the system, including ways of enforcing harder budget constraints on health funds and better defining …

that are physically more demanding are exiting employment earlier. Impaired health also leads to significantly earlier …