Czech Republic: Health system review

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F15%3A10312187" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/15:10312187 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11690/15:10312187

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/280706/Czech-HiT.pdf?ua=1" target="_blank" >http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/280706/Czech-HiT.pdf?ua=1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Czech Republic: Health system review

Original language description

This analysis of the Czech health system reviews recent developments in organization and governance, health financing, health-care provision, health reforms and health system performance. The Czech health-care system is based on compulsory statutory health insurance providing virtually universal coverage and a broad range of benefits, and doing so at 7.7% of GDP in 2012 - well below the EU average - of which a comparatively high 85% was publicly funded. Some important health indicators are better than the EU averages (such as mortality due to respiratory disease) or even among the best in the world (in terms of infant mortality, for example). On the other hand, mortality rates for diseases of the circulatory system and malignant neoplasms are well above the EU average, as are a range of health-care utilization rates, such as outpatient contacts and average length of stay in acute care hospitals. In short, there is substantial potential in the Czech Republic for efficiency gains and to

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AE - Management, administration and clerical work

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Health systems in transition [online]

ISSN

1817-6127

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

AR - ARGENTINA

Number of pages

165

Pages from-to

1-165

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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