EuroHOPE

European Health Care Outcomes, Performance and Efficiency.

Objectives

The project researched and compared European health care systems, performance and efficiency for 5 important diseases: acute myocardial infarction, hip fracture, very low birth weight infants, breast cancer and stroke.

Implementation

Research utilised the latest tools and methodologies from health economic research together with register-based data from 7 European countries: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Italy, Hungary and UK (Scotland). Levels of comparisons were hospital, area and national levels.

Partners

• Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos (THL)
• Universita Commerciale "Luigi Bocconi'" (BOCCONI)
• Semmelweis Egyetem (SU)
• Rijksinstituut Voor Volksgezondheid en milieu (RIVM)
• Universitetet i Oslo (UIO)
• Stiftelsen Frischseteret for samfunnsØkonomisk forskning (FCO)
• The University of Edinburgh (EDIN)
• Karolinska Institutet (KI)

Funding

The project was funded by the European Commission (75%) and by the partners (25%).

Contact information

Unto Häkkinen
Research Professor, Centre for Health and Social Economics
tel. +358 2952 47327
E-mail: [email protected]