National Development Strategy Croatia 2030: Roadmap for a Better Future

Required actions
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Invest in infrastructure to move towards universal access to ECEC for 4-6-year-old and access to at 
least 33 percent of children up to 3 years of age but link those investments to local authorities making 
progress on consolidating their oversized network on basic education schools. 
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Link the large capital investments needed to transition from double-shift to single-shift schools (with 
single shift schools offering “whole day schooling”) to local authorities making progress in downsiz-
ing the number of classes and schools.
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Increase investments in the general secondary, VET and higher education facilities. 
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Continue with investments into infrastructure and human resources in RDI sector and research pro-
grams, but dominantly on the basis of the potentials for collaboration with the private sector and for 
commercialization of the innovations. 
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Invest more in competencies and professional development of teachers at all levels. 
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Invest in lifelong learning opportunities and adult education
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Provide support for educational institutions in raising the entrepreneurial culture among students, es-
pecially through strengthening the cooperation with local and regional businesses and business asso-
ciations. 
Health sector 
Broad areas for policy interventions 
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Improve financial sustainability of the health system by addressing both revenue and spending side.
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Modernize service delivery by developing more continuous and closer to home primary care services 
that focus on risk management, continuous care and fewer inpatient services compared to current hos-
pital-centered, relatively inflexible and fragmented health system.
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Develop a comprehensive national health workforce plan to meet today’s and future health care chal-
lenges, in particular with regard to occupations in shortage of workforce, partly also due to outmigra-
tion of doctors and nurses since the EU accession. 
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Strengthen health care quality measurement and improvement framework. 
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Set up a national health information governance system.
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Promote cross-sectoral collaboration across health, education and social services on public health is-
sues and interventions.
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Ensuring healthy and active ageing through collaboration with other sectors and a life-course ap-
proach.
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Improve institutional capacity to plan and implement reforms in health sector, in particular within the 
Ministry of Health and ensure that all health systems initiatives are planned and implemented as part 
of the wider, comprehensive national framework.