Siantou Vassiliki, Athanasakis Kostas, Kyriopoulos John
Department of Health Economics, National School of Public Health, Athens, Greece.
World Hosp Health Serv. 2009;45(1):32-4.
Greece is among the OECD countries with the highest healthcare spending as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (9.1% of GDP in 2006). Despite this, several issues such as high private health expenditure, informal payments, implementation of Electronic Patient Records and an integrated primary healthcare system have not been solved since the establishment of the national healthcare system in 1983. The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive picture of the healthcare system in Greece. Thus, general information regarding health status of the population is given, along with a description of the organizational structure of the National Health System as well as the social insurance system. Furthermore, main themes such as health financing and reimbursement, resource allocation and expenditure, pharmaceutical policy and future challenges are presented.
希腊是经合组织（OECD）国家中医疗保健支出占国内生产总值（GDP）比例最高的国家之一（2006年占GDP的9.1%）。尽管如此，自1983年国家医疗保健系统建立以来，一些问题，如高额的私人医疗支出、非正规支付、电子病历的实施以及综合初级医疗保健系统等，仍未得到解决。本文旨在全面介绍希腊的医疗保健系统。因此，文中给出了有关人口健康状况的一般信息，同时描述了国家卫生系统以及社会保险系统的组织结构。此外，还介绍了诸如卫生筹资与报销、资源分配与支出、药品政策以及未来挑战等主要主题。
