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Challenges to European healthcare systems at a glance. A comparative analysis of 9 EU countries in times of COVID-19

Healthcare Report, second edition by BFF Group

Health systems around the world are striving to address the well-known challenges of ageing populations and the rise in chronic diseases, as well as growing technical possibilities and public expectations. In the past, to address these challenges a greater percentage of GDP has been spent on healthcare in OECD countries, with Europe being no exception. The negative effects on the economy of the great recession in 2009 has markedly changed this strategy and has increased concerns about the overall sustainability of this state of affairs.

European healthcare systems are already experiencing significant demographic and economic pressures and more will come over the next years. The elderly population is expected to increase, both in numbers and in proportion to the working age population, leading to a doubling in the ratio of elderly people to those of current working ages. At the same time, availability of new treatments is pushing up healthcare costs per patient, determining substantial new costs, with important spillovers also for the social care and the pension payment systems. Overall, these growing number of major health challenges are putting unprecedented pressures on public health systems. To counterbalance these pressures there is a need for action on the social determinants of health so as to improve the health status of the overall population, but particularly among the most vulnerable.

 

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