Abstract
This article discusses avoidable mortality as a methodological instrument for measuring the efficiency of the health care system from the perspective of the reduction of mortality intensity and the practical application of this instrument in the Czech Republic. The first part of the article contains an introduction to and a discussion of this concept.
The second part focuses on quantifying the contribution of the transforming Czech health care system to the significant extension of life expectancy in the Czech Republic in the period between 1990 and 2006.