Estonia Performs Well In Consumer Health Perspectives

The Euro-Canada Health Consumer Index 2008[1] - a cross-comparative index that measures the consumer responsiveness of 29 European healthcare systems plus Canada - highlights some interesting perceptions of systems across Europe. The overall results for healthcare systems placed Austria top of the tree, scoring well across many of the indicators. Following closely behind were the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and Germany. The sub-categories for the study are patient rights and information, waiting times, outcomes, the 'generosity' of the public healthcare systems, and pharmaceuticals. BMI takes this opportunity to analyse the latter of these

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