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High-performing health systems require improved data monitoring and indicators on quality of care, as well as better policies to prevent disease, and improve health-system efficiency via care coordination and the implementation of information technologies. Our work also helps countries to design pharmaceutical policies, and addresses future health workforce and long-term care needs.
Health Ministerial: Health Priorities in the Aftermath of the Crisis, OECD headquarters, 7-8 October 2010.
More information on health across the OECD at www.oecd.org/health.
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23-Nov-2011
The quality of medical care for chronic conditions is improving in OECD countries, with higher survival rates for life-threatening diseases, according to a new OECD report.
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17-Oct-2011
Swiss residents currently enjoy easy access to a wide range of health care services and a vast array of choice in insurers and health care providers.
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from 06-Oct-2011 to 07-Oct-2011
With the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and in collaboration with development partners, the World Bank has been coordinating a global initiative to improve resource tracking for better health outcomes and greater health systems accountability through institutionalisation of National Health Accounts. The preparatory phase of this global initiative culminates with a high-level meeting in Paris on 6-7th October 2011.
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20-Sep-2011
Medical tourism is apparently growing rapidly and yet there is little data on the extent of the provision of health care services across borders. This OECD paper identifies the key emerging policy issues relating to the rise in this new market.
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30-Jun-2011
Health spending continues rising faster than economic growth in most OECD countries, maintaining a trend observed since the 1970s. Health spending reached 9.5% of GDP on average in 2009, the most recent year for which figures are available, up from 8.8% in 2008, according to OECD Health Data 2011.
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18-May-2011
Spending on long-term care in OECD countries is set to double, even triple, by 2050, driven by ageing populations.
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20-Dec-2010
This first edition of Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific presents a set of key indicators of health status, the determinants of health, health care resources and utilisation, and health care expenditure and financing across 27 Asia/Pacific countries.
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15-Dec-2010
In this issue: details on the Health Ministerial meeting, Balancing quality and privacy in health care, Fit not Fat in the media, Health challenges after the crisis, Making Reform Happen, and our new publications.
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from 07-Oct-2010 to 08-Oct-2010
Governments want to give their citizens the best possible healthcare but they also need to control public spending. When health ministers from OECD countries meet on 7-8 October in Paris, they will discuss how to meet urgent short-term fiscal concerns without sacrificing the long-term quality and availability of health care.
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