{"id":2429,"date":"2016-02-12T15:41:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T15:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:59","slug":"euro-health-consumer-index-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/02\/12\/euro-health-consumer-index-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"European Health Consumer Index 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This annual report from Health Consumer Powerhouse analyses\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthpowerhouse.com\/files\/EHCI_2015\/EHCI_2015_report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">European health systems <\/a>and assesses them on 48 indicators, looking into areas such as patient rights and information, access to care, treatment outcomes and range and reach of services. The main conclusion of this report is that European healthcare is steadily improving, despite worries about financial crisis austerity measures, aging population and migration.<\/p>\n<p>For worldwide data on health systems and access, try the WHO website.\u00a0 They have a <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.who.int\/gho\/data\/node.main\" target=\"_blank\">Global Health Observatory<\/a>. Browse the data; there is a section for Health Systems.<\/p>\n<p>For the UK, and analysis of NHS performance, a great starting point is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingsfund.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kings Fund website<\/a>. They publish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingsfund.org.uk\/publications\/articles\/how-nhs-performing-october-2015\" target=\"_blank\">quarterly monitoring reports<\/a>.\u00a0 Also issued by them this week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingsfund.org.uk\/publications\/articles\/public-satisfaction-nhs-2015\" target=\"_blank\">public opinion on the performance of the NHS<\/a>.\u00a0 How satisfied are patients?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This annual report from Health Consumer Powerhouse analyses\u00a0European health systems and assesses them on 48 indicators, looking into areas such as patient rights and information, access to care, treatment outcomes and range and reach of services. The main conclusion of this report is that European healthcare is steadily improving, despite worries about financial crisis austerity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-2429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociology","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}