Access and quality of health of health care system in ten European countries by opinion of patients

Facts and findings. The majority of the respondents in Austria and Sweden rate their healthcare system as good, but only a quarter of respondents in Romania and less than a half in Lithuania consider the quality of healthcare in their country as good or very good. It could be possible, that the financial and economic crisis has influenced those results. The access to health care is best evaluated by patients in Austria and Germany, the worst - in Latvia, Romania, Lithuania and Estonia. Sweden provides the worst access to family doctors, Estonia - to the hospitals among the all evaluated countries. Conclusion. The overall assessment of quality and access in ten selected European countries considering value for money-adjusted evaluation shows that the leading countries in terms of health care quality are Austria, Denmark and Germany, whereas the worst quality is evaluated in Latvia, Romania, Lithuania and Estonia. In terms of health care access the leading three countries are still the same - Germany Austria and Denmark, while Lithuania, Latvia and Romania are estimated as most lagging behind.