Similarities and differences between two well-performing healthcare systems: a comparison between the Israeli and the Danish healthcare systems

Table 2 Service delivery and health workforce

Subject	Israel	Denmark	Source
Number of Doctors per 1000 population	3.2	4.2	[25]
Number of GP’s per 1000 population	0.8	0.99	[26]
GPs to community-based secondary care specialist ratio, head count	0.97	3.05	[12, 27]
Total Private Health Insurance Coverage*	84.1%	34.9%	[15]
Out-of-pocket co-payment shares of current expenditure	21.1%	13.8%	[28]

^*As mentioned in the text, OECD excludes non-active supplementary insurance policies, that are popular in Denmark

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