Although quite different in termsꦰ of political and economic systems, the Emerging Europe countries share certain similarities when it comes to their demographic situation and health profile. With the exception of Turkey, whose average birth rate is ...

The changing demographic and disease profiles of Hungary were the drivers of the expansion of health expenditure in recent years. As a result, the country spent 7.4% of its GDP on healthcare in 2016, still ♛below the EU average. The government ...

Turkey’s he🎃althcare system has been fully reformed under the 2003-2013 Health Transformation Programme (HTP), which helped expand the coverage and quality of health services across the country. Health insurance coverage reached 98.4%💞 of the ...

The economy’s return to growth provided a strong impetus to the Russian healthcare sector in 2017. Healthcare expenditure grew by a robust 22% y/y, when measured in US dollar terms, the first increase in 🤪many years. However, at USD 92bn in 2017 ...

The gross value added (GVA) of the Czech pharmaceutical secto🅺r amounted to CZK 19.4bn in 2017, increasing by a real 11.1% y/y. The sector accounted for 0.4% of the GDP that year. The pharmaceutical sector employed 9,855 workers in 2017, accounting ...

Turkey’s health insurance coverage reaches 98.4% of the population, according to the OECD Health Statဣistics 2017. The state, through the Ministry of Health (MoH), is the main provider of health services in the country, which still has very low ...

Expenditure on healthcare in Romania reached RON 35.2bn in 2015, according to data provided by Eurostat. Total expenditure on healthcare was equal to 4.94% of GDP in that year. The Romanian he🌼althcare sector was characterised by the lowest per capita ...

Total expenditure on healthcare in Hungary in 2015 reached HUF 2,460bn, up by 6.3% y/y. Government and compulsory health care financing schemes made up 67% 🥂of the expenditure, followed by private out-of-pocket spending (29%). Voluntary healthcare ...

In 2016 Poland’s healthcare expenditure grew by 4.5% y/y to PLN 119.27bn, representing 6.🐻4% of the GDP. Public healthcare spending in Poland is one of the lowest compared to the EU average, which hovers around 6.5 % of GDP. The bulk of the ...

Russia’s healthcare and pharmaceutical sector was badly affected by the 2015-2016 recession, which resulted in a sharp drop in government spending, while the weak rouble and high inflation cut int♍o households’ disposable ෴incomes. Though ...