Health Systems in Transition

Health systems in transition

Portugal

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was the previous HiT on Portugal, which was published in 2011, written by

Pedro Pita Barros (NOVA University of Lisbon), Sara Ribeirinho Machado

(Boston University) and Jorge de Almeida Simões (Institute of Hygiene and

Tropical Medicine, NOVA University of Lisbon) and edited by Sara Allin.

The Observatory and the authors are grateful to Emeritus Prof. Constantino

Sakellarides (National School of Public Health – NOVA University of Lisbon),

Ms Rie Fujisawa, Ms Liliane Moreira and Dr Tiago Cravo Oliveira (OECD),

Artur Carvalho and Angela Blanco (European Commission) and Prof. Charles

Normand (Trinity College Dublin) for reviewing the report. The authors would

also like to thank Nick Fahy for his technical assistance in reviewing the text and

for his reworking of the executive summary. Special thanks go also to theMinistry

of Health for their invaluable comments on an earlier version of this report.

Thanks are also extended to the WHO Regional Office for Europe for their

European Health for All database from which data on health services were

extracted; to the OECD for the data on health services in western Europe; and

to the World Bank for the data on health expenditure in central and eastern

European countries, and the European Commission for the Eurostat database.

The HiT uses data available on 31 March 2016, unless otherwise indicated.

The HiT reflects the organization of the health system and the data availability,

unless otherwise indicated, as it was in March 2016.

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Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland and the

United Kingdom; the Veneto Region of Italy; the French National Union

of Health Insurance Funds (UNCAM); the World Health Organization; the

European Commission; the World Bank; the London School of Economics and

Political Science (LSE); and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

(LSHTM). The partnership is hosted by the WHO Regional Office for Europe.

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team, research policy group and staff. Its Secretariat is based in Brussels

and has offices in London at LSE, LSHTM and the Technical University

of Berlin. The Observatory team working on HiTs is led by Josep Figueras,

Director; Elias Mossialos, Martin McKee, Reinhard Busse (Co-directors);

Richard Saltman, Ellen Nolte, Ewout van Ginneken and Suszy Lessof. The

Country Monitoring Programme of the Observatory and the HiT series are

coordinated by Gabriele Pastorino. The production and copy-editing process of

this HiT was coordinated by Jonathan North, with the support of Caroline White,

Lesley Simon (copy-editing) and Pat Hinsley (design and layout).