Performance of the Belgian health system: Report 2024

The fifth edition of the Belgian Performance Report was published in 2024. It analyses our health system along six dimensions: accessibility, quality, efficiency, sustainability, equity and resilience (NEW 2024). In addition, it also analyses four specific domains of care : preventive care, mental health care, care for the elderly and end-of-life care. The result is a dashboard containing 142 indicators. The report highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the system using green, orange and red “lights”. In this new report, for example, green lights were attributed to the use of low-cost medication and low-care dialysis, or to the number of contacts with GPs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Red lights alerted us to the overconsumption of medications like antibiotics or antidepressants, and to equity issues in access to care in general and preventive care in particular.