Health policy studies

• 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 2005)
• 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: Europe 2014 (December 2014)
• Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2014 (November 2014)
• OECD Health Statistics 2014 (June 2014)
• Health at a Glance 2013: OECD Indicators (November 2013)
• A System of Health Accounts (November 2011)

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OECD Series on Health Care Quality Reviews

Country reports released for Korea and Israel (in 2012), Denmark and Sweden (in 2013), Norway, the Czech Republic and Turkey (in 2014).

Access the press releases and Assessment and recommendations for each country on the dedicated OECD Series on Health Care Quality Reviews page. 

The country reports are available for download on the OECD iLibrary.

Reviews of Health Systems series

• 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.

Other OECD health-related publications

From other OECD Directorates: