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 …

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 …

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 …

, 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 …

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

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 …

, 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 …