Life expectancy at birth in Latvia is 73.9 years of age; that’s six years less than the OECD average. Since the country’s financial crisis, Latvia has been consolidating its hospital sector and strengthening primary care, but it still has a lot of work to do in order to improve its quality of health. Latvia has fewer resources and higher healthcare needs than other OECD countries. The OECD highlighted these challenges in its 2016 review of the country’s healthcare system. The review provides recommendations to the Latvian government and examines the reasons why “heal...
The article you requested can be accessed only by subscribing to the online version of The Baltic Times. If you are already subscribed to The Baltic Times, please authorize yourself.
In case you don't have a subscription yet - please visit our
SUBSCRIPTION section
