Experts from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (Observatory) prepared a set of 29 Country Health Profiles, covering all EU Member States, Iceland and Norway.
The State of Health in the EU’s Country Health Profiles are designed to be a one-stop-shop for knowledge and information on a country’s health system, put into the perspective of a cross-EU comparison.
The Country Health Profiles are a comprehensive resource covering each country's latest health policy challenges and developments.
Each Country Health Profile provides:
- a short synthesis of the health status in the country
- the determinants of health (focusing on behavioural risk factors)
- an account of the organisation of the health system
- an analysis of each health system’s effectiveness, accessibility and resilience.
This conceptual framework is based on the objectives set out in the Communication from the Commission on effective, accessible and resilient health systems.
