Sustainability and Resilience in the Dutch Health System

The Dutch health system provides broad universal health care coverage and is based on the principles of regulated competition. According to the OECD (2022), it is one of the best health systems in the world with regard to access to health care, equity and clinical outcomes. However, as also concluded by the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR, 2021), as with other health systems, it faces important sustainability and resilience challenges, some of which were exposed and exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. This report provides a comprehensive overview of the Dutch he... Mehr ...