Presentations from the OECD Study on Ageing-Related Disease: What is best and at what cost?

Session 1 - Introduction to the results of the ARD study

• Project Introduction - Stéphane Jacobzone, OECD
• Summary results for the three diseases
  --- Ischaemic Heart Disease - Pierre Moïse, OECD
  --- Stroke - Lynelle Moon, OECD
  --- Breast Cancer - Stéphane Jacobzone, OECD
• Discussants
  --- Teresa Di Fiandra - Ministry of Health, Italy

Session 2 - Why Do Different Countries Spend Different Amounts on Health Care?

• Macroeconomic analysis of the differences in expenditure - Bengt Jönsson, Centre for Health Economics, Sweden
• The value of medical care - David Cutler, Harvard University, United States
• Discussants
  --- Alberto Holly - IEMS, Switzerland

Session 3a - Ageing (Parallel session)

• Projecting future needs - Mandeep Bains, European Commission
• ARD perspective: An ageing viewpoint - Stéphane Jacobzone, OECD
• Outline for a Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) - Brigitte Santos-Eggimann. IUMSP, Switzerland, and Pierre-Yves Geoffard, DELTA-IEMS, France
• Discussants
  --- Simona Giampaoli - Istituto Superiore Di Sanita, Italy
  --- Howard Oxley - OECD

Session 3b - Technology (Parallel session)

• ARD perspective: The technology-health expenditure link - Pierre Moïse, OECD
• A perspective from the Technological Change in Health Care (TECH) Global Research Network - Vincenzo Atella, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
• The role of technology assessment and regulation - Clive Pritchard, OHE, United Kingdom
• Discussants
  --- Yuichi Imanaka, Kyoto University, Japan
  --- Antonio Sarria, Instituto Carlos III, Spain

Session 3c - Health Outcomes over the Continuum of Care (Parallel session)

• Measuring "health and well being", an international perspective- Ritu Sadana, WHO
• ARD perspective: health outcomes and the continuum of care - Lynelle Moon, OECD
• Discussants
  --- Jack Tu - University of Toronto, Canada

Session 4 - Lessons from the Project

• ARD participants' perspectives
  --- Stroke - Silvia Evers, Maastricht University, Netherlands

Session 5 - Policy Implications

• ARD perspective: understanding the performance of health systems - Stéphane Jacobzone, OECD
• From Results to Action: The Implications For Health Policy Making - Clive Smee, DOH, UK
• The value of international perspectives in health and ageing policy - Cathy Schoen, Commonwealth Fund

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