Policy Brief: Health and the Environment

How much does the environment affect human health? Are air pollution and tainted water shortening our lives and those of our children? These questions have aroused increasing interest in recent years, particularly since the adoption of Agenda 21 at the UN Conference on Environment and Development, which drew the attention of policy makers to the links between health and the environment.Air pollution is one obvious environmental health

Guidelines For The Delineation Into Public And Private Units

Background document for the OECD-Eurostat-WHO SHA Data Questionnaire.

Trends in Severe Disability Among Elderly People (Health Working Paper No. 26)

This working paper assesses the most recent evidence on trends in disability among the population aged 65 and over in 12 OECD countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Facing the Future: Korea's Family, Pension and Health Policy Challenges

This summary study looks at existing Korean family, health and pension policies from an international perspective and considers them in view of the emerging policy challenges in Korea. It was presented at a policy forum on Low fertility and Ageing Society, in September 2006 in Seoul.

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• Pensions at a Glance - Public Policies across OECD Countries 2007 Edition

OECD Reviews of Health Systems: A series of country reports

OECD Reviews of Health Systems are in-depth studies of the health system of member countries.

OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Switzerland (2006)

The Swiss population enjoys good health and universal access to a comprehensive range of modern health services, with unconstrained choice of provider. Nonetheless, policy makers are faced with considerable policy challenges.

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• OECD Reviews of Health Systems

Health Care Quality Indicators

The OECD Health Care Quality Indicator (HCQI) Project was started in 2001. The objective of the HCQI Project is to develop a set of indicators that are based comparable data and which can be used to raise questions for further investigation on quality differences across countries.

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• European Diabetes Leadership Forum (EDLF), Copenhagen, 25-26 April 2012

Efficiency of Health Care Delivery: Co-ordination of Care

Work in the area of efficiency is currently focusing on coordination-of-care policies as a tool for improving cost and quality outcomes. The study will cover the OECD countries and non-OECD countries that are members or prospective members of the European Union.

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Long-term Care for Older People

The latest trends in long-term care policies in nineteen OECD countries.

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• Dementia Care in 9 OECD Countries: A Comparative Analysis (OECD Health Working Papers No. 13)

OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Mexico

The health status of Mexicans has experienced marked progress over the past few decades.

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