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News & Events
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08-Apr-2008
The OECD has released a new OECD Health Technical Paper (#19). The paper was prepared to support the overall work of the Health Care Quality Indicators Project in developing a set of indicators that can be used to raise questions for investigation concerning the quality of care across countries. It provides a manual to facilitate cross national comparisons of indicators for patient safety through the provision of detailed practical advice on calculating each indicator in a selected set of Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) utilising national hospital administrative databases.
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31-Mar-2008
The OECD has released a new OECD Health Working Paper from the Economics of Prevention project. The paper (Working Paper #32) provides an economic perspective on the prevention of chronic diseases, focusing in particular on diseases linked to lifestyle choices.
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29-Feb-2008
At a time when the subject of “globalisation” is on everyone’s lips, it is timely to reflect on the contribution of international migration to the ongoing wave of globalisation. Just how significant an engine of globalisation is international migration? What have been some of the main trends in international migration over the past half-century and how do they compare with the first great wave of international migration from the 1820s to the beginning of World War I?
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27-Feb-2008
The OECD has released a new OECD Health Working Paper from the Pharmaceutical Pricing Policies and Innovation project. The paper describes and assesses pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies in the Slovak Republic, in the context of the broader policy and market environment.
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20-Feb-2008
New Zealand should encourage young people to stay in school past the age of 16 in order to boost their chances of finding a job, according to a new OECD report.
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20-Feb-2008
A new OECD publication, A Profile of Immigrant Populations in the 21st Century, gives more accurate information and a better understanding of patterns of immigration over recent decades, based largely on national censuses from 2000. Migration is a key issue for OECD and this study is part of a broader programme to examine the policy challenges of migration in the context of population ageing and globalisation.
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15-Feb-2008
Too many workers leave the labour market permanently due to health problems, and yet too many people with a disabling condition are denied the opportunity to work. This is a social and economic tragedy common to virtually all OECD countries, and an apparent paradox that needs explaining. Why is it that average health status is improving, yet more and more people of working age end up out of the workforce relying on long-term sickness and disability benefits?
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14-Feb-2008
For decades, social policy interventions were limited to assist and insure against a limited number of well-defined risks. However, the social order based on standard employment relations, the male breadwinner model and social security in defined but exceptional circumstances, has changed.
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Events
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on 20-Feb-2008
Migration to OECD countries is accelerating, posing major challenges to the integration of immigrants and their children. At the same time, more and more countries are adopting selective policies to attract highly skilled workers, raising fears of a brain drain from many developing countries.
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on 15-Jun-2007
A seminar on the integration of immigrants into the labour market, jointly organised by the Portuguese Authorities and the OECD took place in Lisbon on 15 June 2007.
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from 31-May-2007 to 01-Jun-2007
Identify how social and economic goals can best be achieved, for example by policy interventions at certain critical "transition points" or by redistribution of income from one point in the life course to another. How assess the best way of financing social policies across the life course. These issues were discussed by a range of experts and policy makers at a seminar held on Thursday 31 May - Friday 1st June 2007 in Paris.
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on 06-May-2007
The world's population is ageing, and it's forcing us to make some tough choices about how we pay for our collective old age. Monika Queisser, OECD Senior Economist, was invited by Barry Thorne, to take part into the debate of the ageing population-themed edition of Amsterdam Forum (Copyright: www.radionetherlands.nl)
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on 28-Mar-2007
Brazil, China and India represent a growing share of world GDP. They have also become more open to international trade and investment, thus creating new growth opportunities for OECD countries. It is therefore crucial that Brazil, China and India maintain a sustainable growth path, which depends to some extent on well-functioning labour markets. The purpose of the informal seminar was to gather expert views on labour market developments in Brazil, China and India.
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from 29-Mar-2007 to 05-Apr-2007
Is there a perfect pension scheme? Do people understand their pension systems?
A live online question and answer session on the issue of pension reform took place on Thursday 5 April.
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from 30-Oct-2006 to 31-Oct-2006
As a follow-up to the High-level forum of Employment and Labour Ministers in Toronto in June 2006 , which welcomed the restated Jobs Strategy as a good basis for formulating policy, a Forum took place in Tokyo on 30-31 October 2006. Its purpose was to invite policy makers mainly from countries in the Asia-Pacific region to discuss:
i) the challenges of implementing the restated Jobs Strategy in OECD countries in the region; and
ii) the relevance of the restated Jobs Strategy for participating non-OECD countries
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from 16-Nov-2006 to 17-Nov-2006
A conference, organised by the French Ministry of Labour in partnership with OECD, will examine the relevance of the Restated OECD Jobs Strategy for France. It took place in Paris on 16-17 November 2006. Speech made by the Secretary-General at this conference .
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from 04-Oct-2006 to 07-Oct-2006
A range of health policy challenges will be assessed and potential solutions identified in discussion with delegates at this year's forum. Those participating in the event include senior policy and decision-makers representing politics and government at European Union, national and regional levels; business and industry; health care funders and service providers; and civil society; as well as experts and researchers in health care and public health. The OECD is organising a workshop on health workforce shortages and migration and will chair a plenary session on the same theme.
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from 06-Mar-2003 to 07-Mar-2003
The OECD and the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research organised on 6 and 7 March 2003 a conference to discuss disability policies for the working-age population. The conference addressed key problems in disability policy, and discussed OECD recommendations on how to tackle them as outlined in the forthcoming publication "Transforming Disability into Ability". The main policy recommendations from the publication formed the basis for the thematic sessions.
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