OECD OBSERVER ISSUE ON HEALTH

EDITORIAL Our health systems must put people at the centre, by Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD   Download the OECD Observer issue on health  (April 2017)

HEALTH POLICY STUDIES 

• Preventing Ageing Unequally (October 2017)
• Primary Care in Denmark (March 2017)
• New Health Technologies: Managing Access, Value and Sustainability (January 2017)
• Tackling Wasteful Spending on Health (January 2017)
• Better Ways to Pay for Health Care (June 2016)
• Health Workforce Policies in OECD Countries: Right Jobs, Right Skills, Right Places (March 2016)
• Case-based Payment Systems for Hospital Funding in Asia (November 2015)
• Promoting Health, Preventing Disease: The Economic Case (October 2015)
• Health Data Governance: Privacy, Monitoring and Research (September 2015)
• Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems: Bridging Health and Finance Perspectives (September 2015)
• Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes: Policies for Better Health and Quality of Care (June 2015)
• Tackling Harmful Alcohol Use: Economics and Public Health Policy (May 2015)
• Addressing Dementia: The OECD Response (March 2015)
• Dementia Research and Care: Can Big Data Help? (February 2015)
• Geographic Variations in Health Care: What Do We Know and What Can Be Done to Improve Health System Performance? (September 2014)
• Paying for Performance in Health Care: Implications for Health System Performance and Accountability (September 2014)
• Making Mental Health Count: The Social and Economic Costs of Neglecting Mental Health Care (July 2014)
• Cancer Care: Assuring Quality to Improve Survival (October 2013)
• A Good Life in Old Age? Monitoring and Improving Quality in Long-term Care (June 2013)
• Strengthening Health Information Infrastructure for Health Care Quality Governance (May 2013)
• Waiting Time Policies in the Health Sector - What Works? (February 2013)
• Health Reform: Meeting the Challenge of Ageing and Multiple Morbidities (December 2011)
• Help Wanted? Providing and Paying for Long-Term Care (June 2011)
• Health Care Systems: Efficiency and Policy Settings (December 2010, Economics Department)
• Improving Value in Health Care: Measuring Quality (October 2010)
• Value for Money in Health Spending (October 2010)
• Obesity and the Economics of Prevention: Fit not Fat (September 2010)
• Improving Health Sector Efficiency: The Role of Information and Communication Technologies (June 2010)
• Achieving Better Value for Money in Health Care (November 2009)
• The Looming Crisis in the Health Workforce (October 2008)
• Pharmaceutical Pricing Policies in a Global Market (September 2008)
• Health Technologies and Decision Making (November 2005)
• Long-term Care for Older People (July 2015)
• Private Health Insurance in OECD Countries (November 2004)
• Towards High-Performing Health Systems: Policy Studies (September 2004)
• Towards High-Performing Health Systems (May 2004)
• A Disease-based Comparison of Health Systems: What is Best and at what Cost? (May 2003)
• Measuring Up - Improving health system performance in OECD countries (April 2002)

 

HEALTH STATISTICAL PUBLICATIONS 

• Health at a Glance 2017: OECD Indicators (November 2017)
• Health at a Glance: Europe 2016 (November 2016)
• Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2016 (November 2016)
• OECD Health Statistics 2017 (June 2016)
• A System of Health Accounts (November 2011; revised edition March 2017)

Also access the Country Health Profiles 2017, released in November 2017, and which are part of the State of Health in the EU Cycle.
 

NEW SERIES: OECD REVIEWS OF PUBLIC HEALTH 

The OECD Reviews of Public Health, launched in October 2017, provide in-depth analysis and policy recommendations to strengthen priority areas of countries’ public health systems, highlighting best practice examples that allow learning from shared experiences, and the spreading of innovative approaches. Topics covered within this series of health reviews include unhealthy diets and obesity, preventing harmful alcohol use, health checks and preventive screening, responding to public health emergencies, and more.

OECD SERIES ON HEALTH CARE QUALITY REVIEWS 

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The synthesis report, Caring for Quality in Health: Lessons learnt from 15 reviews of health care quality, was released on January 10, 2017. Country reports released for Korea and Israel (in 2012), Denmark and Sweden (in 2013), Norway, the Czech Republic, Japan and Turkey (in 2014), Australia, Italy and Portugal (in 2015), the United Kingdom (2016). Access the press releases and Assessment and recommendations for each country on the dedicated Reviews of National Health Care Quality page.  The country reports are available for download on the OECD iLibrary.

REVIEWS OF HEALTH SYSTEMS SERIES

• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Kazakhstan 2018 (February 2018)
• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - National Health Accounts of Kazakhstan (February 2018)
• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Peru 2017 (December 2017)
• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Monitoring Health System Performance in Peru (December 2017)
• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Costa Rica 2017 (November 2017)
• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Primary Care in Denmark (March 2017)
• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Latvia 2016 (September 2016)
• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Mexico 2016 (January 2016)
• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Colombia 2016 (December 2015)
• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Russian Federation (June 2012) 
• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Switzerland (2011) (October 2011)
• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Turkey (February 2008)
• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Switzerland (2006) (October 2006)
• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Finland (December 2005)
• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Mexico (July 2005)
• OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Korea (May 2003)

All reviews are accessible via the country reports homepage.

For a description of health systems by country, visit the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies' Health Systems in Transition (HiT) series. And visit their new platform for a detailed description of health systems and up-to-date information on reforms and changes.

• A new series launched early 2016, Health Policy in Your Country, aims to highlight the latest data in selected countries, to explain their health care systems and to provide key information in a clear and concise way.
  
  

OTHER OECD HEALTH-RELATED PUBLICATIONS  

From other OECD Directorates: Social issues and health Read the latest on the Mental Health and Work project For the most recent publications, visit http://www.oecd.org/els Development Focus on aid to health: A statistical overview of aid to health (frequently updated statistics) For the most recent publications, visit http://www.oecd.org/dac Technology Access the most recent work on Biotechnology policies at http://www.oecd.org/sti/biotech/ For the most recent publications, visit http://www.oecd.org/sti Environment Chemical safety and biosafety work available via http://www.oecd.org/env/ehs/ For the most recent publications, visit http://www.oecd.org/env

  

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