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Slovenia is a central European country bordering the Adriatic Sea, Austria, Croatia, Hungary and Italy and is a member of the European Union. Its population in 2023 was\u00a0 and life expectancy was <\/span>81 years in 2022<\/span><\/a>. The following extract from <\/span>Slovenia: Country Health Profile 2023<\/span><\/i><\/a>, published by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, summarizes Slovenia\u2019s health system:<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TEXT – BLOCK 2 ” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The social health insurance system provides near universal coverage via a single payer\u00a0<\/b> [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TEXT – BLOCK 3″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Health expenditure remains comparatively low despite record growth in 2021<\/b> [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TEXT – BLOCK 4 ” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Out-of-pocket payments are among the lowest in the EU<\/b> [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TEXT – BLOCK 5″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Care has shifted from inpatient to outpatient settings, while long-term care remains underfunded<\/b> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Slovenia is a central European country bordering the Adriatic Sea, Austria, Croatia, Hungary and Italy and is a member of the European Union. Its population in 2023 was\u00a0 and life expectancy was 81 years in 2022. The following extract from Slovenia: Country Health Profile 2023, published by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":987573345,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country\/987502047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/country"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country\/987502047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987713078,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country\/987502047\/revisions\/987713078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987573345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987502047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nSlovenia\u2019s health system is relatively centralised, and statutory employment-based social health insurance (SHI) covers more than 99% of permanent residents. Those not covered include people who are temporarily uninsured due to unclear or changing insurance status and vulnerable populations facing longer-term challenges because they cannot fulfil the formal residency requirements. The Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia is the single purchaser of services, and a reform of its legal status and management is under consideration. \u2026Triggered by a large increase in premiums by one complementary health insurance (CoHI) insurer, CoHI was abolished in July 2023 and will be replaced from January 2024 by a fixed compulsory contribution.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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\nHealth expenditure grew to 9.5% of GDP in 2021, which is lower than the EU average (11.0%). Per capita health expenditure also increased, driven by injections from Slovenia\u2019s pandemic response, reaching EUR 2 665 in 2021. Slovenia\u2019s health spending is about two thirds of the EU average (EUR 4 028 per capita in 2021). <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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\nPublic sources accounted for 73.7% of current health expenditure in 2021, which is below the EU average (81.1%). Private sources represented the remaining 26.3% of current health expenditure, of which voluntary health insurance schemes \u2013 driven by CoHI \u2013 comprised more than half (13.4%). This was the highest proportion [of CoHI] in the EU. At 12.9% of current health expenditure, OOP payments were lower than the EU average (14.5%), partly due to CoHI usage, which averts direct OOP spending. OOP payments apply primarily to direct payments for services outside the statutory benefits package.a<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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\nPer capita spending on all health functions was lower than the EU averages in 2021. As a share of current health expenditure, however, Slovenia spent more on outpatient care (33%) than the EU average (29%), while inpatient care spending (27%) was slightly below the EU average (28%). … In other sectors, spending on prevention was 5.3% in 2021, which is on a par with the EU average (6.0%), and outpatient pharmaceutical spending (21%) was above the EU average (18%)\u2026 [T]he healthcare component of long-term care spending increased, reaching 10.9% of current health expenditure in 2021, but it trails the EU average (16.1%). The [new] Long-Term Care Act will be implemented in phases from January 2024 until full implementation by December 2025.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n