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.

Bio-based Economy

The focus at the OECD on industrial biotechnology is to identify the potential contribution of biotechnology to sustainable growth and development, and identify and appraise policy options for supply and demand side interventions that can drive efficient transition towards bio-based economy.

OECD Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Genetic Testing

Genetics is playing an increasingly important role in health care. New technical advances and information deriving from human genome research are changing health care practices and the economics of healthcare provision.

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• OECD Workshop Vienna 2000 on Genetic Testing: Policy Issues for the New Millennium
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• Directrices de la OECD para garantizar la Calidad de los Estudios Genéticos Moleculares

OECD Best Practice Guidelines for Biological Resource Centres

This report presents the outcome of discussions held by the OECD member countries, together with a number of key partner countries, under the auspices of an expert Task Force established by the OECD Working Party on Biotechnology.

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• OECD Best Practice Guidelines on Biosecurity for BRCs
• Joint OECD/Russian Federation Workshop on “Biosecurity of Microbial Biological Resources – Complementing Innovation"
• OECD Workshop on "Biosecurity of Microbial Biological Resources – Complementing Innovation" - Chairman's summary

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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• OECD Family database
• OECD Reviews of Health Care Systems - Korea
• 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.

Creation and Governance of Human Genetic Research Databases

Summarises proceedings of a conference looking at examples of human genetic research databases, how they are established, how they are managed and governed, how they might be commercialised, and what the policy considerations might be.

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• Guidelines for Human Biobanks and Genetic Research Databases (HBGRDs)

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