HiTs are country-based reports that provide a detailed description of each health care system and of reform and policy initiatives in progress or under development. Each profile is produced by country experts in collaboration with the Observatory’s research directors and staff. In order to facilitate comparisons between countries, the profiles are based on a template, which is revised periodically.

HiT profiles seek to provide relevant information to support policy-makers and analysts in the development of health systems in Europe. They are building blocks that can be used:

• to learn in detail about different approaches to the organization, financing
  and delivery of health services and the role of the main actors in health
  systems;
• to describe the institutional framework, the process, content and
  implementation of health care reform programmes;
• to highlight challenges and areas that require more in-depth analysis; and
• to provide a tool for the dissemination of information on health systems and
  the exchange of experiences of reform strategies between policy-makers and
  analysts in different countries.

The HiTs are available on this website in PDF format - in full and in summary. If you wish to order a paper copy, please write to info@obs.euro.who.int