Gesundheit hospital 2020
This can be seen as achieving a considerable level of technical efficiency. Our mission is to reframe and reclaim the concept of ‘hospital’. In terms of efficiency, Germany has large human, technical and infrastructural capacities at its disposal and makes frequent use of these resources, with a very high number of services provided across health sectors. The Gesundheit Institute, a non-profit healthcare organization, is a project in holistic medical care based on the belief that one cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the family, the community, the society, and the world. Key areas of change in recent years have been in assuring equal access in ambulatory care, quality assurance in inpatient care, and strengthening coordination of care.
Quality assurance and increasing efficiency are mainstays of the policy agenda This fragmentation presents challenges for health care in terms of coordination and continuity of care, quality of services for patients and efficiency in allocating resources. Public Health, ambulatory care, hospital care and long-term care are very separate and organized differently in terms of planning, financing, and governance. There is a strong sectoral separation of services in Germany Cost sharing is low, with only 13.6% of health spending coming from household out-of-pocket payments. SHI covers a broad benefits package, well beyond essential services, and patients can freely choose their physicians, general practitioners and specialists alike. Health insurance is compulsory and is provided either under the Social Health Insurance (SHI) scheme or through substitutive private health insurance. The country’s per capita health expenditure is the third highest in the European region (after Switzerland and Norway). Germany spent €390.6 billion on health in 2018, which corresponds to 11.7% of GDP.
Germany spends more on health than most other European countries and provides universal coverage with a broad benefits package