Health at a Glance: Europe 2016
State of Health in the EU Cycle

This fourth edition of Health at a Glance: Europe presents key indicators of health and health systems in the 28 EU countries, 5 candidate countries to the EU and 3 EFTA countries. This 2016 edition contains two main new features: two thematic chapters analyse the links between population health and labour market outcomes, and the important challenge of strengthening primary care systems in European countries; and a new chapter on the resilience, efficiency and sustainability of health systems in Europe, in order to align the content of this publication more closely with the 2014 European Commission Communication on effective, accessible and resilient health systems. This publication is the result of a renewed collaboration between the OECD and the European Commission under the broader "State of Health in the EU" initiative, designed to support EU member states in their evidence-based policy making.
Medical and nursing graduates
One of the main policy levers that countries can use to adjust the supply of health workers to projected demand is to change the number of students admitted to medical, nursing and other health-related education programmes. However, the effect of these policies are not felt immediately, as it takes several years to train new doctors (about 8‑10 years) and nurses (about three years for general nurses going to university).
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