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The State of Health in the EU’s Country Health Profiles provide a concise and policy-relevant overview of health and health systems in the EU/European Economic area, emphasizing the particular characteristics and challenges in each country. The 2021 edition has a special focus on the impact and responses of European health systems to the COVID-19 pandemic. Each Country Health Profile provides a short synthesis of:
- health status (including mortality from COVID-19)
- risk factors to health (including behavioural and environmental risks)
- the organisation of the health system and health spending
- the effectiveness, accessibility and resilience of the health system to the pandemic
The Country Health Profiles are an important step in the European Commission’s State of Health in the EU cycle and are the joint work of the OECD and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, in cooperation with the European Commission. They are released once every two years, alternating with the release of Health at a Glance: Europe.
This is the third edition of Country Health Profiles, published on 13 December 2021.
