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The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies supports and promotes evidence-based
health policy-making through comprehensive and rigorous analysis of health systems in Europe. It
brings together a wide range of policy-makers, academics and practitioners to analyse trends in health
reform, drawing on experience from across Europe to illuminate policy issues.
The Observatory is a partnership hosted by the WHO Regional Office for Europe; which includes
the Governments of Austria, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, the United
Kingdom, and the Veneto Region of Italy; the European Commission; the World Bank; UNCAM
(French National Union of Health Insurance Funds); the London School of Economics and Political
Science; and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. The Observatory has a secretariat
in Brussels and it has hubs in London (at LSE and LSHTM) and at the Technical University of Berlin.
This is one part of a study on the impact of the crisis on health and health systems in Europe prepared
jointly by the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the European Observatory on Health Systems
and Policies. It provides an overview of health system responses to the crisis by country and case studies
of the impact of the crisis in selected countries.
For an analysis of the impact of the crisis across countries, see:
Thomson S, Figueras J, Evetovits T, Jowett M, Mladovsky P, Maresso A, Cylus J, Karanikolos M and
Kluge H (2014). Economic crisis, health systems and health in Europe: impact and implications for policy.
Maidenhead: Open University Press.
For a summary of the whole study, see:
Thomson S, Figueras J, Evetovits T, Jowett M, Mladovsky P, Maresso A, Cylus J, Karanikolos M
and Kluge H (2014). Economic crisis, health systems and health in Europe: impact and implications for
policy. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe/European Observatory on Health Systems and
Policies (Policy Summary 12).
The study is part of a wider initiative to monitor the effects of the crisis on health systems and health.
Those interested in ongoing analysis will find updates through the Health and Crisis Monitor of the
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies in collaboration with the Andalusian School of
Public Health (www.hfcm.eu), and the website of the Division of Health Systems and Public Health at
the WHO Regional Office for Europe (www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/Health-systems).