In family medicine contrasting evidence exists on the effectiveness of team practice compared with solo practice on chronic disease management. In Italy, several experiences of team practice have been introduced since the late 1990s but few studies detail their impact on the quality of care.

The European Union needs a common health information infrastructure to support policy and governance on a routine basis. A stream of initiatives conducted in Europe during the last decade resulted into several success stories, but did not specify a unified framework that could be broadly...

The “Tallinn Charter: Health Systems, Health and Wealth” signed by 53 member states of the WHO European Region provides guidance for strengthening health systems.

Nowadays, the evaluation of the performance in the healthcare system is needed to guide policy-makers and to make clear the results to the citizens. In this work, the international, national and regional experiences are outlined. Among the national experiences, we have described the monitoring...