The measurement of the impact of technology as a driver of health care expenditure is complex since technological … effects are closely interlinked with other determinants such as income and the composition and health status of a population …. Furthermore, the impact of the supply of advances in technology on health expenditure cannot be considered in isolation from …

efficiency incentives. Disparities of coverage across social groups and health services suggest paying greater attention to co …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 …

, benchmarking the Czech health system to countries with comparable institutional setting points to potential for efficiency gains …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 …

In 2017, the “Sláintecare Report” proposed a comprehensive overhaul of the Irish health system including a reform …

system could be rationalised by giving sickness funds a more active role as promoters of cost-efficiency, better aligning the … information flows and incentive structures could facilitate addressing practice and efficiency variations and supplier … remuneration of doctors and measures to tackle the high spending on drugs. Once incentives for cost-efficiency are in place, a …

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 …

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 …