Performance Evaluation of Health Care in the European Union Member Countries

Health policy of European Union aims to protect and improve citizens' health, support the modernization of health infrastructure and improve the efficiency of European healthcare systems. However, each European Union member country is responsible for its own health policy and has its legislative and financial instruments at its disposal. The paper is focused on the performance evaluation of health care systems of the European Union member countries. The importance of international performance evaluation lies in particular in the possibility of developing more responsible health policies, improving the quality of health care and increasing general government capacity. The result of the research is a comparison of health care performance in the EU member countries in the period 2012 - 2018. The outputs are processed using the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution method. Large differences in the performance of health systems in EU countries were found. The highest health care performance was confirmed in the case of Germany, Austria, Finland, Belgium and France, while the lowest performance was found in the case of Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Latvia and Romania.