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How health care systems perform is a major issue. The Economics Department has examined health care systems in more than 20 OECD countries over the last decade, the reforms that may improve system performance and cost effectiveness. Work also focusses on the impact of ageing on health care spending. Bookmark this page: www.oecd.org/eco/structural/health
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03-Nov-2009
Despite progress over the past two decades Mexico’s health and education indicators remain well below the average of the OECD and some of its Latin American emerging market peers. Health insurance coverage is incomplete, especially for low-income families, and access to health services is highly uneven.
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16-Oct-2009
Monetary and fiscal policies face huge challenges: the banking sector has collapsed; the economy is in the midst of a deep recession; the exchange rate has plunged; capital flows have been frozen; inflation is elevated; public debt has risen; source of revenues have disappeared; social needs have increased; and the unemployment insurance fund has been nearly depleted.
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30-Sep-2009
Japan has been hard-hit by the global financial crisis. Its main economic challenges include raising its growth potential, upgrading the financial sector, resolving its fiscal problem, reforming health care and improving climate change policies.
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This 4th edition of Health at a Glance provides the latest comparable data on the performance of health systems in OECD countries
The most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries