Primary health care in Brazil is well-organised, the result of sustained commitment to providing high quality primary health care for the whole population. Brazil has implemented a set of reforms over the past decades to improve the distribution of...

In the 30 years since the inception of the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, or SUS), Brazil has reduced health inequalities, and improved coverage and access to health care. However, mobilising sufficient financing for the universal...

The report analyses the performance of Lithuania’s health system which has been long characterised by its institutional stability and the steady pursuit of a policy agenda aimed at adapting it to the evolving burden of disease.

This report assesses how Kazakhstan measures up in the development and application of its national health accounts, delivering a set of recommendations to improve the health spending information necessary to support health system performance.

Kazakhstan has made significant economic progress over recent decades. Health has risen on the policy agenda with a number of sector reforms introduced. This review uses globally recognised frameworks and indicators to evaluate Kazakhstan’s overall...

This report assesses the status and availability of Peru’s routinely reported health sector data and statistics and the underlying infrastructure. It offers recommendations to improve the health information system and strengthen data coverage and...

This is the OECD’s first Health System Review of Peru. It seeks to support Peru’s policy goal to attain universal health coverage by 2021, and build a high-performing health system with continuously improving accessibility, quality, efficiency and...

This report puts forward policy recommendations for strengthening the performance and sustainability of the health care system in Costa Rica.

In many ways, primary care in Denmark performs well. Danish primary care is trusted and valued by patients, and is relatively inexpensive. But there are important areas where it needs to be strengthened. Most critically, Danish primary care is...

This review aims to support Latvia in continuing reform of its health system, informed by international best practice.

Colombia has an impressive record in extending health insurance and health services to its population, but still faces important challenges in health system performance. This report looks at what Colombia can do to ensure accessibility, quality,...

Ten years after the introduction of publically-funded universal health insurance, the Mexican health system finds itself at a critical juncture.

This review examines some of the possible reasons for poor population health in Russia and explores possible impediments to further improvements. In doing so it examines the current health system against the background of the reforms put in place in ...

This comprehensive review of the Swiss health system focuses on three important issues: health insurance markets, health workforce planning and management and governance of the health system.

This comprehensive review of Turkey's health care system shows how Turkey recently brought universal health care to its population and assesses the challenges that remain.

This book analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the Swiss health system.

A comprehensive OECD review of the Finnish health care system that evaluates financing, service provision, investment, governance, and insurance/payment schemes. The review includes a series of recommendations.

This book describes the strengths and weaknesses of the Mexican health system in terms of access, quality, efficiency, financial sustainability, and effectiveness of recent reforms.

How can the performance of the Korean health care system be improved? How have the July 2000 health sector reforms affected performance? This book investigates a set of policy challenges concerning the type of government interventions that are ...