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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 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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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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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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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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28-Jun-2007
The OECD has released a new OECD Health Working Paper from the Pharmaceutical Pricing Policies and Innovation project. The paper describes and assesses pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies in Switzerland, in the context of the broader policy and market environment. See also Working Papers on pharmaceutical pricing policies in Canada and Mexico .
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03-Apr-2007
The OECD has released a new OECD Health Working Paper from the Disability Trends Among Older Populations and the Implications for Long-Term Care project. This paper assesses the most recent evidence on trends in disability among the population aged 65 and over in 12 OECD countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. The focus is on reviewing trends in severe disability (or dependency), defined where possible as one or more limitations in basic activities of daily living.
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06-Jul-2005
This newsletter provides up-to-date information on the OECD’s work on health: pharmaceutical pricing; health care quality; biotechnology, innovation and health; international migration of health professionals; disability trends; the impact of pharmacogenomics on health systems; safety of novel foods; the implementation of a System of Health Accounts; measuring the social outcomes of learning; the economic valuation of children's health; and several other projects on health at OECD.
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