Health policy studies

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• 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

• OECD Health Statistics 2014 (June 2014)
• Health at a Glance 2013: OECD Indicators (November 2013)
• Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2012 (November 2012)
• Health at a Glance: Europe 2012 (November 2012)
• A System of Health Accounts (November 2011)

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.

New: OECD Series on Health Care Quality Reviews, for Korea 2012, Israel 2012, Denmark 2013, Sweden 2013, Norway 2014 and Czech Republic 2014.

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

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