Key Health Publications

Health Policy Studies

• Help Wanted? Providing and Paying for Long-Term Care
• Health Reform: Meeting the Challenge of Ageing and Multiple Morbidities
• Health Care Systems: Efficiency and Policy Settings (Economics Department)
• Improving Value in Health Care: Measuring Quality
• Value for Money in Health Spending
• Obesity and the Economics of Prevention: Fit not Fat
• Improving Health Sector Efficiency: The Role of Information and Communication Technologies
• 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 Publications

• Health at a Glance 2011: OECD Indicators
• OECD Health Data 2011
• Health at a Glance: Asia/ Pacific 2010
• Health at a Glance: Europe 2010
• A System of Health Accounts

Reviews of Health Systems Series

• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Switzerland (2011) 
• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Turkey 
• OECD Reviews of Health Care Systems - Switzerland (2006)
• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Finland
• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Mexico
• OECD Reviews of Health Care Systems - Korea 

All reviews are accessible via the country reports homepage.
See also the recent OECD Economic Surveys covering health issues.

Other OECD Health-related Publications

• 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: Breaking the Barriers
• 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
• Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers (Vol. 1) - Norway, Poland and Switzerland
• Facing the Future - Korea's Family, Pension and Health Policy Challenges
• 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

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