The strongly decentralized Swiss health system achieves good results: Past research has addressed persisting challenges – but more is encouraged

In this issue, we publish two articles on Switzerland [1,2], and we take the opportunity to look back at nine further papers on Swiss health care reforms, processes, and outcomes published since 2014 [3 –11]. Switzerland is a fascinating small country (population 8.4 million) – not only because of its wealth (GDP per capita of US$ PPP 65 096) [12], its beautiful Alpine landscape, its four official languages (German, French, Italian and Romansh), its exceptionally high degree of decentralization (with 26 cantons and 2352 municipalities), its unique consensus-oriented political system with frequent referenda, and because trains in Switzerland always arrive on time [13].
Source: Health Policy - Category: Health Management Authors: Tags: Guest Editorial Source Type: research