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21-Oct-2008
Valérie Paris, Elizabeth Docteur
This paper (Health Working Paper No. 39) describes pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies in Germany, considering them in the broader environment in which they operate, and assesses their impact on the achievement of a number of policy goals.
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16-Oct-2008
Hannes Suppanz
Health outcomes and the quality of health care in Iceland are very good by international comparison, while income related health inequality appears to be smaller than in most other countries.
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16-Oct-2008
Jean-Christophe Dumont, Pascal Zurn, Jody Church and Christine Le Thi
This report (Health Working Paper No. 40) examines the role played by immigrant health workers in the Canadian health workforce but also the interactions between migration policies and education and health workforce management
policies.
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15-Oct-2008
Richard A. Cooper
This review surveys trends in physician supply in the United States from 1980 to the present with particular attention to the participation of International Medical Graduates.
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15-Oct-2008
James Buchan, Susanna Baldwin and Miranda Munro
In the late 1990s shortages of skilled staff were a main obstacle to improving services in the NHS. The response by government was to “grow” the NHS workforce.
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01-Oct-2008
Roland Cash et Philippe Ulmann
Ce document examine la démographie des professionnels de la santé en France ainsi que les évolutions récentes des politiques migratoire relatives aux professionnels de la santé.
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01-Oct-2008
Linda H. Aiken and Robyn Cheung
The United States has the largest professional nurse workforce in the world numbering close to 3 million but does not produce enough nurses to meet its growing demand. A shortage of close to a million professional nurses is projected to evolve by 2020.
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01-Oct-2008
Jonathan Chaloff
The Italian population is aging rapidly, raising and changing the demand for care. At the same time, and due to the same trend, the number of Italians entering the labour force is declining. The health care system therefore finds itself in difficulty.
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02-Sep-2008
Sandra Garcia Armesto, Helena Medeiros, Lihan Wei
This paper provides an overview of the present mental health care information systems in 18 OECD countries with the aim to explore the possibilities for measuring the quality of mental health care and identify potential indicators to be included in OECD’s HCQI set.
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05-Aug-2008
Isabelle Joumard, Christophe André, Chantal Nicq and Olivier Chatal
This paper aims to shed light on the contribution of health care and other determinants to the health status of the population and to provide evidence on whether or not health care resources are producing similar value for money across OECD countries
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