Healthcare in Italy

Policlinico Umberto I in Rome
Ospedale Niguarda Ca' Granda in Milan

Italy's healthcare system is consistently ranked among the best in the world.[1][2] Life expectancy is the 4th highest among OECD countries (83.4 years in 2018[3]) and the world's 8th highest according to the WHO (82.8 years in 2018[4]). Healthcare spending accounted for 9.7% of GDP in 2020.[5]

The Italian state has run a universal public healthcare system since 1978.[6] 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.

  1. ^ "The World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems". Photius.com. Retrieved 2015-09-07.
  2. ^ "Italy's Struggling Economy Has World's Healthiest People". Bloomberg.com. 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  3. ^ "Health status - Life expectancy at birth - OECD Data". theOECD. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  4. ^ "Life Expectancy in Italy". World Life Expectancy. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  5. ^ "Total health expenditure as share of GDP in Italy from 2005 to 2020". Retrieved 12 June 2022.
  6. ^ "Italy – Health". Dev.prenhall.com. Archived from the original on 1 July 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2010.

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