Ferreira Pedro Lopes, Tavares Aida Isabel, Quintal Carlota, Santana Paula
CEISUC and FEUC, University of Coimbra, Av Dias da Silva, 165, 3004-512, Coimbra, Portugal.
CeBER, CEISUC, and FEUC, University of Coimbra, Av Dias da Silva, 165, 3004-512, Coimbra, Portugal.
BMC Health Serv Res. 2018 Jul 3;18(1):511. doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3323-3.
In accordance the WHO framework of health system functions and by using the indicators collected within the EURO-HEALTHY project, this work aims to contribute to the discussion on the classification of EU health systems.
Three methods were used in this article: factor analysis, cluster analysis and descriptive analysis; data were mainly collected from the WHO and Eurostat databases.
The most relevant result is the proposed classification of health systems into the following clusters: Austria-Germany, Central and Northern Countries, Southern Countries, Eastern Countries 'A' and Eastern Countries 'B'.
The proposed typology contributes to the discussion about how to classify health systems; the typology of EU health systems allows comparisons of characteristics and health system performance across clusters and policy assessment and policy recommendation within each cluster.
根据世界卫生组织卫生系统功能框架,并利用欧洲健康项目收集的指标,本研究旨在为欧盟卫生系统分类的讨论做出贡献。
本文采用了三种方法:因子分析、聚类分析和描述性分析;数据主要来自世界卫生组织和欧盟统计局数据库。
最相关的结果是提出将卫生系统分类为以下几类:奥地利-德国、中欧和北欧国家、南欧国家、东欧“A”组国家和东欧“B”组国家。
所提出的类型学有助于关于如何对卫生系统进行分类的讨论;欧盟卫生系统的类型学允许对不同类别间的特征和卫生系统绩效进行比较,并在每个类别内进行政策评估和政策建议。