Health Publications

POLICY RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 CRISIS

COVID-19 OECD Portal

Access our Health System Response Tracker
Read our latest Policy Briefs Treatments and a vaccine for COVID-19 and Testing for COVID-19: A way to lift confinement restrictions
Read our blog post Resilient Health Systems: What we are learning from the COVID-19 crisis

Visit the dedicated webpage of the Organisation http://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/.

HEALTH POLICY STUDIES

Who Cares? Attracting and Retaining Care Workers for the Elderly (June 2020)
Realising the Potential of Primary Health Care (June 2020)
Waiting Times for Health Services: Next in Line (May 2020)
Health in the 21st Century: Putting Data to Work for Stronger Health Systems (November 2019)
The Supply of Medical Isotopes: An Economic Diagnosis and Possible Solutions (November 2019)
The Heavy Burden of Obesity - The Economics of Prevention (October 2019)
Health for Everyone? - Social Inequalities in Health and Health Systems (September 2019)
Recent Trends in International Migration of Doctors, Nurses and Medical Students (July 2019)
Price Setting and Price Regulation in Health Care: Lessons for Advancing Universal Health Coverage (June 2019)
Addressing Problematic Opioid Use in OECD Countries (May 2019)
Pharmaceutical Innovation and Access to Medicines (November 2018)
Stemming the Superbug Tide - Just A Few Dollars More (November 2018)
Delivering Quality Health Services: A Global Imperative (July 2018)
Care Needed: Improving the Lives of People with Dementia (June 2018)
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)

For reports published before 2015, please visit our Health Publications Archives page.

HEALTH STATISTICAL PUBLICATIONS

OECD Health Statistics 2020 (released July 1, 2020)
Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2020 (June 2020)
Health at a Glance 2019: OECD Indicators (November 2019)
Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2018 (December 2018)
Health at a Glance: Europe 2018 - State of Health in the EU Cycle (November 2018)
A System of Health Accounts (November 2011; revised edition March 2017)

Also access the Country Health Profiles 2019, released in November 2019, and which are part of the State of Health in the EU Cycle.

OECD REVIEWS OF PUBLIC HEALTH

The OECD Reviews of Public Health 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 Reviews of Public Health: Korea - A Healthier Tomorrow (March 2020)
OECD Reviews of Public Health: Japan - A Healthier Tomorrow (February 2019)
OECD Reviews of Public Health: Chile - A Healthier Tomorrow (January 2019)

OECD SERIES ON HEALTH CARE QUALITY REVIEWS

‌

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.

COUNTRY HEALTH PROFILES 2019

Country-Health-Profiles-2019-small

The Country Health Profiles provide a concise and policy-relevant overview of health and health systems in the EU/European Economic area, emphasizing the particular characteristics and challenges in each country against a backdrop of cross-country comparisons. Each Country Health Profile provides a short synthesis of

health status
risk factors
the organisation of the health system,
and the effectiveness, accessibility and resilience of the health system

The Country Health Profiles are an important step in the European Commission’s State of Health in the EU cycle and are the joint work of the OECD and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, in cooperation with the European Commission. This is the second series of biennial country health profiles, published on 28 November 2019.

OECD REVIEWS OF HEALTH SYSTEMS SERIES

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

OECD OBSERVER ISSUE ON HEALTH

EDITORIAL