News & Events

New Publication - Good Laboratory Practice: OECD Principles and Guidance for Compliance Monitoring

08-Feb-2006

This for-sale publication unites all 14 of the OECD documents related to Good Laboratory Practice and compliance monitoring, and, in the Annex, reproduces the three OECD Council Decisions related to the Mutual Acceptance of Data in the Assessment of Chemicals.

2nd Issue of OECD Health Update released

02-Feb-2006

This newsletter provides up-to-date information on the OECD’s work on health: OECD-WHO co-operation; health accounts; the OECD/Korea Regional Centre on Health and Social Policy; expenditure projections; quality indicators; efficiency in health care delivery; competition in hospital services; workforce migration; malpractice insurance; biotechnology; environment-related health impacts; and several other projects on health at OECD.

Endocrine Disrupters Testing and Assessment (EDTA) Task Force

26-Jan-2006

The Endocrine Disrupters Testing and Assessment (EDTA) Task Force will speed up its validation and reporting activities for test methods in environmental species during 2006-2007.

This includes test methods already on the workplan of the Test Guidelines Programme in the area of fish testing for potential endocrine disrupters, testing on amphibians for the detection of thyroid disruption, and testing on invertebrates for assessment of ED on development and reproduction.

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Older workers: Living longer, working longer -- Second issue of the Directorate's Newsletter

17-Jan-2006

The second issue of the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Newsletter is now available. It focuses on the challenge of encouraging people to work longer as life expectancy increases, the topic of a recent high-level policy forum in Brussels.

OECD Reviews of Health Systems - Finland

07-Dec-2005

This book evaluates the performance of the Finnish health system in terms of quality of care, efficiency, fiscal sustainability and equity. After reviewing the challenges the system faces in future, the report makes a number of recommendations for structural improvements to be made to the system.

New CD-Rom with Initial Assessment Reports for High Production Volume Chemicals

14-Nov-2005

UNEP Chemicals has released a new CD-ROM containing all Initial Assessment Reports for High Production Volume Chemicals from the OECD HPV Chemicals Programme which have been finalised up to October 2005. The CD-ROM can be obtained free of charge by contacting chemicals@unep.ch. The assessments are also available from the following web site: http://www.chem.unep.ch/irptc/sids/OECDSIDS/sidspub.html

Framework for Selecting and Applying PRTR Release Estimation Techniques

09-Nov-2005

This document provides general principles to be applied in producing comparable and representative PRTR data and in the selection and application of estimation techniques. Three case studies provide detailed information on practical applications. The document complements the information of the Resource Compendium and the Resource Centre for Release Estimation Techniques

Getting better value for money from Sweden's healthcare system

28-Oct-2005

This paper reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the Swedish healthcare system and the challenges that it will face in the future.

OECD opens in Seoul, Korea, its Regional Centre on Health & Social Policy

23-Sep-2005

The purpose of the Centre, which opened on 9 September in Seoul, is to promote policy dialogue between OECD and non-member economies and to provide capacity-building assistance to the non-OECD Asian economies by information-sharing and policy analysis.

Long-term Care for Older People

03-Aug-2005

How do OECD countries respond to the growing demand for long-term care services? What do they need to do to improve access to care, improve quality of services and make care affordable? An OECD report studies lessons learnt from reforms over the past decade and compares trends in expenditure, financing and the number of care recipients.