This is the launch event of the report “How Do Health System Features Influence Health System Performance?”. Following a presentation of the key findings of this publication, a panel of experts will provide their reflections on the report.
This report has two main objectives: to identify groups of countries with similar health system characteristics (health system clusters); and to compare and assess performance between and within health system clusters to assess potential links between system characteristics and performance.
The analysis highlights that health systems with a different mix of institutions characteristics can achieve similar levels of efficiency. In other words, there is no best health system institutional set up that will “automatically” result in higher performance. Rather, health systems with similar institutional arrangements can learn from each other about how specific policy actions can be leveraged to improve health system performance.