The overview of the Austrian health care system developed by the Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection of Austria (the Ministry), was edited by a team from the Ministry’s subordinate agency Gesundheit Österreich GmbH (Healthy Austria Fund). It is available in English language at the Ministry’s webpage here.
The content of the document covers the following sections:
- Facts and figures
- Health – a public task
- The health of the population
- Health promotion and preventive medicine
- Health care provision
- Quality, transparency and patient orientation
- e-Health in Austria
- Health care financing
- Sources and notes
The section describing health financing in Austria, pages 31-35, presents healthcare financing sources as a solidarity-based combination of income-dependent social insurance contributions, taxpayers’ money and private direct and indirect co-payments. This section gives an overview of health expenditure outlook for Austria (for years 2016-2017). It concludes by stating “Health is not only a “cost factor”, but also a significant component of the national economy” and describing the role of the health sector on employment, production and economy overall.
