Key Health Publications

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Health Project Series
Health Policy Studies

• Achieving Better Value for Money in Health Care
• The Looming Crisis in the Health Workforce
• Pharmaceutical Pricing Policies in a Global Market
• Towards High-Performing Health Systems
• Towards High-Performing Health Systems: Policy Studies
• Private Health Insurance in OECD Countries
• Long-term Care for Older People
• Health Technologies and Decision Making

Health Data and Statistical Products

• OECD Health Data 2009: Statistics and Indicators for 30 Countries
• Health at a Glance 2009: OECD Indicators - Released December 8
• A System of Health Accounts

Reviews of Health Systems Series

• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Turkey 
• OECD Reviews of Health Care Systems - Switzerland
• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Finland
• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Mexico
• OECD Reviews of Health Care Systems - Korea 

See also recent OECD Economic Surveys covering health issues

Other OECD Health-Related Publications

• OECD Employment Outlook 2009
• International Migration Outlook 2009
• OECD Regions at a Glance: 2007 Edition
• OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies, Sweden, The Safety of Older People
• Policy Issues in Insurance n°11: Medical Malpractice - Prevention, Insurance and Coverage Options
• Understanding the brain
• Understanding the Brain: The Birth of a Learning Science
• "Measuring Up" - Improving health system performance in OECD countries
• A Disease-based Comparison of Health Systems: What is Best and at what Cost?

Social issues and health

• Sickness, Disability and Work (Vol. 3): Denmark, Finland, Ireland and the Netherlands
• Sickness, Disability and Work (Vol. 2): Australia, Luxembourg, Spain and the United Kingdom
• Facing the Future - Korea's Family, Pension and Health Policy Challenges
• Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers (Vol. 1) - Norway, Poland and Switzerland
• Transforming Disability into Ability

Development

• Focus on aid to health: A statistical overview of aid to health
• Financing Development: Aid and Beyond (2007)
• Decentralisation in Asian Health Sectors: Friend or Foe
• Private Health Insurance for the Poor in Developing Countries
• Education and Health Expenditure, and Development: The Cases of Indonesia and Peru
• Development Centre Studies: Education and Health Expenditure and Poverty Reduction in East Africa - Madagascar and Tanzania
• Poverty and Health (DAC Guidelines and Reference Series)

Technology

• Creation and Governance of Human Genetic Research Databases 
• Measuring Expenditure on Health-related R&D
• Guidelines on licensing of healthcare genetics
• OECD Workshop Vienna 2000 on Genetic Testing: Policy Issues for the New Millennium

Environment

• Economic Valuation of Environmental Health Risks to Children
• Assessing Microbial Safety of Drinking Water