Health care service performance in Italy 2023, by region

According to a study about the performance of the healthcare service in Italy, Emilia Romagna was the region with the highest standard of healthcare in 2023. The evaluation, expressed as scores on a scale from one to ten, was based mainly on three KPIs: efficacy, efficiency, and appropriateness of the healthcare supply. The average score for Italy was 5.7, with all southern regions scoring below the national average.

Healthcare satisfaction

In 2022, the share of individuals who were 'very much and quite' satisfied with the sanitary facilities in hospitals across the country totaled almost 82 percent. Specifically, over 89 percent were satisfied with the medical care in Italian hospitals. Both these figures were lower than the ones observed in 2020 and 2021.

State of health

Italy is one of the healthiest countries in the world and enjoys one of the highest life expectancies worldwide. In 2022, most of its population reported to be in good health, with over 41 million people, while people with at least one chronic disease totaled 23.7 million. The region Trentino-South Tyrol reported the highest healthy life expectancy at birth across Italy in 2021, with 65.8 years.