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The Health Division undertakes performance measurement and analysis of health care systems for international comparison through data projects and analytical projects.
More information on health across the OECD at www.oecd.org/health.
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24-Apr-2012
Across OECD countries some 83 million people suffer from diabetes. On current trends, that will rise to almost 100 million by 2030.
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26-Feb-2012
Korea’s healthcare system depends too much on hospitals to treat the ill and not enough on community-based medical practices to keep people healthy, according to OECD’s Health Care Quality Review: Korea.
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21-Feb-2012
More people in developed countries are overweight or obese than ever before, dooming them to years of ill-health and early death. New OECD data show however that in some countries obesity rates are slowing, and that’s good news for people’s health and government budgets.
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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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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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