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29-Nov-2007
Getting family-friendly policies right will help reduce poverty, promote child development, enhance equity between men and women and stem the fall in birth-rates, according to a new OECD report. Babies and Bosses, Reconciling Work and Family Life compares the different approaches that the 30 OECD countries take to help parents balance their work and family commitments.
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22-Nov-2007
The 2007 edition of Health at a Glance has been released in November 2007. It provides the latest comparable data and trends on the performane of health systems in OECD countries.
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13-Nov-2007
The quality of medical care, measured by the provision of recommended interventions or actual health outcomes, is improving in OECD countries. Health at a Glance 2007 shows that advances in diagnosis and treatment mean that, across OECD countries, only 10% of people hospitalized after a heart attack now die within 30 days of being admitted to hospital, down from 20% in the 1980s.
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08-Nov-2007
OECD Deputy Secretary-General De Geus highlights the growing importance of health for OECD countries. The November 2007 issue of the newsletter on OECD health-related activities also includes news on health care quality indicators, health workforce migration, medicines for neglected diseases, and using the health sector to monitor aid effectiveness.
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26-Oct-2007
The Internet update for OECD Health Data 2007 has been released. Go to the OECD Health Data Update page to download the file and access more than 3,500 data updates, along with a fully revised hypertext for Definitions, Sources and Methods.
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10-Oct-2007
Continuous growth in life expectancy, often at a more rapid rate than forecast, creates financial challenges for retirement-income systems. Most countries have responded with pension reforms to contain rising pension costs. Around two-thirds of reforms will automatically link future pensions to changes in life expectancy.
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05-Oct-2007
The OECD has released an OECD Health Working Paper (No. 29) from the Health Care Quality Indicators Project. This report is an update to the OECD Health Working Paper No. 22, and reports on the results of a second round of data collection.
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04-Sep-2007
The 2007 edition of the OECD Employment Outlook has been released in June. It addresses labour markets in the BRICs; the impact of labour market policies on productivity; the vulnerability of workers in the global economy; the financing of social protection; anf the way countries activate the unemployed.
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04-Sep-2007
The International Migration Outlook is published every year in June. The subject of migration has jumped up the policy agenda in OECD countries and this annual publication analyses recent developments in migration movements and policies in OECD countries.
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02-Aug-2007
This annual publication provides detailed statistics on population, labour force, employment and unemployment, broken down by gender, as well as unemployment duration, employment status, employment by sector of activity and part-time employment. It also contains participation and unemployment rates by gender and detailed age groups as well as comparative tables for the main components of the labour force.
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