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EU Health Systems Classification: a New Proposal from EURO-HEALTHY

Overview
Journal BMC Health Serv Res
Publisher Biomed Central
Specialty Health Services
Date 2018 Jul 5
PMID 29970085
Citations 10
Authors
Pedro Lopes Ferreira
Aida Isabel Tavares
Carlota Quintal
Paula Santana
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Abstract

Background: In accordance the WHO framework of health system functions and by using the indicators collected within the EURO-HEALTHY project, this work aims to contribute to the discussion on the classification of EU health systems.

Methods: Three methods were used in this article: factor analysis, cluster analysis and descriptive analysis; data were mainly collected from the WHO and Eurostat databases.

Results: The most relevant result is the proposed classification of health systems into the following clusters: Austria-Germany, Central and Northern Countries, Southern Countries, Eastern Countries 'A' and Eastern Countries 'B'.

Conclusions: The proposed typology contributes to the discussion about how to classify health systems; the typology of EU health systems allows comparisons of characteristics and health system performance across clusters and policy assessment and policy recommendation within each cluster.

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