This is the 2026 update of our Italian Public Healthcare scoring. The 7,896-town analysis of Italy’s public health system finds a country where the gap between best and worst is wider than between Italy and the United States. Northern Tuscany and the Veneto top the table. Parts of Southern Italy anchor the bottom, but there are areas in the North that show up surprisingly poorly. The story is mostly about which local health authority you happen to live under. (Almost) As Good As Sweden, But Not Everywhere Italy as a whole runs one of the best healthcare systems in the world. The Lancet’s Healthcare Access and Quality Index ranks it ninth globally. The OECD records Italian amenable mortality (deaths that should not occur given timely medical intervention) at roughly two-thirds the OECD average. Italians live longer than almost anyone else on earth. [Map: Italy plays in the top division — half a step behind the Nordics. Source: OECD, Health at a Glance 2023 and 2025. AMI and stroke 30-day mortality based on unlinked data, OECD-standardised rates. Treatable mortality is age-standardised. Italy ranks #9 globally on the Lancet HAQ Index (2016).] On life expectancy Italy is essentially indistinguishable from the Dutch…
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Italian Public Healthcare works well in some areas and poorly in others. See our 2026 town-by-town ranking of Italy’s healthcare system.
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Luca Falda is a Veneto-born writer and strategist with a background in journalism, market research, digital publishing, and finance. A graduate of the University of Padua and a London Institute of Banking & Finance alumnus, he has held senior research roles at AOL, Townsquare Media, and Nordea before moving into investment and real-estate ventures. His work for Magic Towns Italy draws on deep local knowledge of the Veneto, long firsthand expat experience in the UK, USA, Denmark, Malta, and Italy.
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