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02-Mar-2006
Access to water that is safe to drink is vital to human health and to development. Recognising this, world leaders have set themselves the goal of halving by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable ...
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02-Mar-2006
Securing safe and reliable water and sanitation services for all is one of the leading challenges facing sustainable development. All but a few OECD countries have connected 100% of their populations to ...
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16-Mar-2005
Demand for long-term care for older people is set to rise steeply in OECD countries as the baby-boom generation reaches old age. But can they be sure of receiving quality care at a price they can afford?
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19-Oct-2004
Health spending in OECD countries averages more than 8% of gross domestic product (GDP) and the share is rising. Overall, some three-quarters of that spending is publicly financed.
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06-Nov-2003
Health is higher on the international agenda than ever before and improving the health of poor people is a central issue in development. Poor people suffer worse health and die younger. They have higher ...
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08-Oct-2003
This Policy Brief presents some of the key indicators contained in the second edition of the publication Health at a Glance – OECD Indicators 2003, with a focus on how France compares with other countries.
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06-Jul-2001
Water shortage and contamination are cause for increasing concern in many countries. Every year about 13 million people die from waterborne infections; of these, 2 million are children. The majority of ...
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07-Jun-1999
Scientific understanding of how living things are put together and how they grow and develop based on instructions coded in their DNA is advancing rapidly. The knowledge already acquired and being accumulated ...
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