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Healthcare in Italy
Italy's healthcare system is consistently ranked among the best in the world.[1][2] The Italian healthcare system employs a Beveridge model, and operates on the assumption that health care is a human right that should be provided to everyone regardless of their ability to pay.[3] Life expectancy is the 4th highest among OECD countries (83.4 years in 2018[4]) and the world's 8th highest according to the WHO (82.8 years in 2018[5]). Healthcare spending accounted for 9.7% of GDP in 2020.[6]
The Italian state has run a universal public healthcare system since 1978.[7] The public part is the Servizio Sanitario Nazionale, which is organised under the Ministry of Health and administered on a devolved regional basis, in consequence of the 2001 Italian constitutional referendum.
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- ^ "Italy's Struggling Economy Has World's Healthiest People". Bloomberg.com. 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
- ^ Butticè, Claudio (2019). Universal health care. Health and medical issues today. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood. ISBN 978-1-4408-6844-3.
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- ^ "Life Expectancy in Italy". World Life Expectancy. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
- ^ "Total health expenditure as share of GDP in Italy from 2005 to 2020". Retrieved 12 June 2022.
- ^ "Italy – Health". Dev.prenhall.com. Archived from the original on 1 July 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2010.
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