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Good health is necessary for individuals to flourish as citizens, family members, workers and consumers. Improving health is a key concern of OECD societies, as it can contribute to higher economic growth and improved welfare.
This page contains information on work on health undertaken by different bodies of the OECD. Friendly URL for this web page: www.oecd.org/health
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16-Apr-2008
The Chilean authorities plan to raise budgetary allocations over the medium term for a variety of social programmes, including education, health care and housing. This incremental spending will need to be carried out in a cost efficient manner to make sure that it yields commensurate improvements in social outcomes. Chile’s health indicators show that it fares relatively well in relation to comparator countries in the OECD area and in Latin America.
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09-Apr-2008
The aim of the recent healthcare reform was to increase the sustainability of healthcare finances, by reducing its negative impact on employment and increasing cost-effectiveness via enhanced competition. Higher budget contributions will help decouple healthcare finances from labour income a bit, if and once they materialise. An improved risk adjustment between insurers could reduce incentives for risk selection, raising chances for competition to lead to more cost-effectiveness instead.
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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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07-Apr-2008
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.
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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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25-Mar-2008
Speech by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the China Development Forum 2008 (Beijing, March 23, 2008)
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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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19-Feb-2008
Sustaining universal tax-financed healthcare is feasible, this report argues. But it requires strong efficiency gains, cost-saving treatment practices and willingness to reduce Denmark’s extensive public funding for long-term care. Finally, the health system should become more responsive, early on, to help avoid that sickness leads to prolonged detachment from the labour market.
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17-Dec-2007
This report (Working Paper 30) attempts to assess whether--and to what degree--better care coordination can improve health system performance in terms of quality and cost-efficiency. See also the annex to this paper.
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26-Nov-2007
The authorities plan to raise budgetary allocations over the medium term for a variety of social programmes, including education, health care and housing. This incremental spending will need to be carried out in a cost efficient manner to make sure that it yields commensurate improvements in social outcomes. Chile’s population health indicators show that it fares relatively well in relation to comparator countries in the OECD area and in Latin America. But this is less so in the case of education, where secondary and tertiary educational attainment remain low.
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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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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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