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High unemployment, exclusion and poverty tear at the fabric of society and can unravel economies.
The OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs helps economies to formulate policies to boost employment and improve social welfare by reforming labour markets, improving the performance of health systems and designing international migration policies that promote economic growth and development.
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17-May-2012
OECD and ILO heads call upon the Ministers of Labour and Employment of the G20 countries to put a greater, renewed emphasis on employment policies to help economies accelerate and sustain the recovery, achieve higher levels of decent work and get out of the debt trap, at the G20 Meeting in Mexico.
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24-Apr-2012
Across OECD countries some 83 million people suffer from diabetes. On current trends, that will rise to almost 100 million by 2030.
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06-Mar-2012
On the occasion of International Women's day on March 8, the OECD launches the OECD Gender Data Browser. The browser contains 16 key indicators on gender equality in education, employment and entrepreneurship focusing on gender gaps in OECD countries and emerging economies. The browser shows changes in gender equality over time and enable to compare a country’s position to the OECD average and to other selected countries.
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26-Feb-2012
Korea’s healthcare system depends too much on hospitals to treat the ill and not enough on community-based medical practices to keep people healthy, according to OECD’s Health Care Quality Review: Korea.
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21-Feb-2012
More people in developed countries are overweight or obese than ever before, dooming them to years of ill-health and early death. New OECD data show however that in some countries obesity rates are slowing, and that’s good news for people’s health and government budgets.
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12-Dec-2011
Mental illness is a growing problem in society and is increasingly affecting productivity and well-being in the workplace, according to the new OECD report Sick on the Job? Myths and Realities about Mental Health at Work. It says that one in five workers suffer from a mental illness, such as depression or anxiety, and many are struggling to cope.
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05-Dec-2011
The gap between rich and poor in OECD countries has reached its highest level for over half a century, and governments must act quickly to tackle inequality, according to a new OECD report.
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23-Nov-2011
The quality of medical care for chronic conditions is improving in OECD countries, with higher survival rates for life-threatening diseases, according to a new OECD report.
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17-Nov-2011
The economic outlook has weakened significantly over the past six months, which is not good news for employment or the prospects of those looking for work. But action targeted on youth and the long-term unemployed can, and must, be taken. An article by John P. Martin, Director, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs.
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17-Nov-2011
This Conference was jointly organised by the European Commission and the OECD. John P. Martin, Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs at the OECD makes his opening and closing remarks.
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17-Oct-2011
Swiss residents currently enjoy easy access to a wide range of health care services and a vast array of choice in insurers and health care providers.
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28-Sep-2011
Read the new issue of the Employment, Migration and Social Policy Newsletter; all the country notes of our recent publications and the G20 Labour Ministerial, news on ongoing and upcoming projects, calendar of meetings and more .
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26-Sep-2011
G20 Labour and Employment ministers will meet in Paris on 26 and 27 September to discuss how to boost job creation and tackle unemployment rates that remain stubbornly high, especially in OECD countries.
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from 06-Oct-2011 to 07-Oct-2011
With the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and in collaboration with development partners, the World Bank has been coordinating a global initiative to improve resource tracking for better health outcomes and greater health systems accountability through institutionalisation of National Health Accounts. The preparatory phase of this global initiative culminates with a high-level meeting in Paris on 6-7th October 2011.
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30-Jun-2011
Health spending continues rising faster than economic growth in most OECD countries, maintaining a trend observed since the 1970s. Health spending reached 9.5% of GDP on average in 2009, the most recent year for which figures are available, up from 8.8% in 2008, according to OECD Health Data 2011.
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