The European Observatory on Health Systems & Policies supports and promotes evidencebased health policymaking through comprehensive and rigorous analysis of health systems in Europe. It brings together a wide range of policymakers, academics and practitioners to analyse trends in health reform, drawing on experience from across Europe to illuminate policy issues.

The Observatory has four core functions:

Country monitoring: providing analytic and evaluative descriptions of country health systems and systematically monitoring developments;
Analysis: exploring how health systems ‘work’ through secondary and comparative research, multidisciplinary studies and policy briefs on key challenges;
Performance assessment: supporting the development and interpretation of indicators for practical policy use and to help improve performance;
Knowledge brokering: making Observatory evidence visible and useful to its target audiences by unpacking and sharing it in a range of formats.