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Good health is necessary for individuals to flourish as citizens, family members, workers and consumers. Improving health is a key concern of OECD societies, as it can contribute to higher economic growth and improved welfare.
This page contains information on work on health undertaken by different bodies of the OECD. Friendly URL for this web page: www.oecd.org/health
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29-Oct-2008
The Internet update for OECD Health Data 2008 has just been released. Go to the OECD Health Data Update page to download the file and access data updates, along with a fully revised hypertext for Definitions, Sources and Methods.
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22-Oct-2008
OECD countries face a challenge in responding to the growing demand for doctors and nurses over the next 20 years and should adopt a comprehensive approach to health human resources, reinforce international cooperation and better monitor health workforce policies and migration.
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18-Sep-2008
Pharmaceutical pricing policies are designed with national objectives in mind, but are the transnational implications always taken into account? This report assesses how pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies have contributed to the achievement of certain health policy objectives.
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29-Oct-2008
This report (Health Working Paper No. 40) examines the role played by immigrant health workers in the Canadian health workforce as well as the interactions between migration policies and education and health workforce management policies.
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29-Oct-2008
This paper (Health Working Paper No. 39) describes pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies in Germany, considering them in the broader environment in which they operate, and assesses their impact on the achievement of a number of policy goals.
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29-Oct-2008
This paper (Health Working Paper No. 38) describes the migration of health workers to the U.K. until 2006 and potential future health expenditure.
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29-Oct-2008
This review (Health Working Paper No. 37) surveys trends in physician supply in the United States from 1980 to the present with particular attention to the participation of International Medical Graduates.
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03-Oct-2008
This report (Health Working Paper No. 36) examines health workforce demographics in France, together with recent trends in migration policies regarding health professionals. It also analyses workforce planning and the possible role of the recruitment of foreign health workers in coming years.
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02-Oct-2008
The United States has the largest professional nurse workforce in the world numbering close to 3 million but does not produce enough nurses to meet its growing demand. This paper (Health Working Paper No. 35) focuses on the balance between supply and demand for nurses in the United States with a particular focus on nurse migration.
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02-Oct-2008
The Italian population is aging rapidly, raising and changing the demand for care. At the same time, and due to the same trend, the number of Italians entering the labour force is declining. The health care system therefore finds itself in difficulty. The main difficulty lies in finding the human resources. This paper (Health Working Paper No. 34) examines these issues.
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04-Sep-2008
This paper (Health Technical Paper #20) was prepared to support the overall work of the Health Care Quality Indicators Project in developing a set of indicators that can be used to raise questions for investigation concerning the quality of care across countries. It provides an overview of the present mental health care information systems in 18 OECD countries.
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05-Aug-2008
This paper aims to shed light on the contribution of health care and other determinants to the health status of the population and to provide evidence on whether or not health care resources are producing similar value for money across OECD countries. The empirical estimates suggest that potential efficiency gains might be large enough to raise life expectancy at birth by almost three years on average for OECD countries, while a 10% increase in total health spending would increase life expectancy by three to four months.
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26-Jun-2008
A combination of slower growth in spending on healthcare and expanding economies has led to a stabilisation of health spending as a proportion of GDP in many OECD countries, according to OECD Health Data 2008.
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23-May-2008
The health workforce in New Zealand, as in all OECD countries, plays a central role in the health system. This paper (Health Working Paper No. 33) examines health workforce and migration policies in New Zealand, with a special focus on the international recruitment of doctors and nurses.
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20-May-2008
Highlights the OECD enlargement process and implications for health activities. The May 2008 issue of the newsletter on OECD health-related activities also includes news on health-specific purchasing power parities, the remuneration of doctors, the prevention of lifestyle-related chronic diseases and economic reviews of the health systems of Denmark, Germany and Iceland. Features the upcoming Accra High-Level Forum that will discuss health as a tracer sector to monitor aid effectiveness. Information on key projects by other OECD Directorates.
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08-Apr-2008
The OECD has released a new OECD Health Technical Paper (#19). The paper was prepared to support the overall work of the Health Care Quality Indicators Project in developing a set of indicators that can be used to raise questions for investigation concerning the quality of care across countries. It provides a manual to facilitate cross national comparisons of indicators for patient safety through the provision of detailed practical advice on calculating each indicator in a selected set of Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) utilising national hospital administrative databases.
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