Austria emerges as the top performer in the Euro Health Consumer Index 2007

The Euro Health Consumer Index (EHCI) aims to empower European healthcare consumers by providing them with valuable information about healthcare services, allowing them to make informed decisions. The EHCI does this by assessing the “user-friendliness” of the different national public healthcare systems, comparing them to the other European countries. Using a selection of 27 important indicators, the EHCI creates the platform to compare the different standards of national systems and provides a European ranking of national public healthcare.

Austria emerges as the 2007 winner of the Euro Health Consumer Index (EHCI), with a healthcare system providing very good medical results quality and excellent accessibility for consumers/patients. These two sub-disciplines carry a higher weight in the EHCI, as numerous patient surveys show that medical quality and accessibility are highly valued.

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