European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

the observatory is a partnership hosted by who that supports and promotes evidence-based health policy-making in europe. it 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, multi-disciplinary studies and policy briefs on key and emerging 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. to receive the latest evidence and event information, sign up at www.tinyurl.com/obsupdates