Slovak Republic: Selected Issues
July 3, 2007
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This Selected Issues paper on the Slovak Republic reviews efficiency and reform of the health sector. The immediate challenge for the health care system in the Slovak Republic is to improve health sector outcomes while containing public health spending. The Slovak health care system is decentralized, and the central government has limited control over decisions by insurance companies and health care institutions. The government has introduced limits on administrative costs of insurance companies and submitted proposals to regulate their profits with the aim of diverting resources to health care providers.
Subject: Expenditure, Financial institutions, Health, Health care, Health care spending, Insurance companies
Keywords: CR, doctor, Europe, expenditures in the OECD, government, Health care, Health care spending, health expenditures in the OECD, Insurance companies, ISCR, OECD country, out-of pocket expenditure, out-of-pocket spending doe, out-patient expenditure, personal care expenditure, Slovakia
Pages:
19
Volume:
2007
DOI:
Issue:
225
Series:
Country Report No. 2007/225
Stock No:
1SVKEA2007001
ISBN:
9781451835540
ISSN:
1934-7685
