Italy

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Briefing note for OECD Health Data 2009: How Does Italy Compare

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01-Jul-2009

Total health spending accounted for 8.7% of GDP in Italy in 2007, slightly below the average of 8.9%.

Immigration of Health Professionals to Italy: a new OECD Health Working Paper

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01-Oct-2008

Jonathan Chaloff

The Italian population is aging rapidly, raising and changing the demand for care. At the same time, and due to the same trend, the number of Italians entering the labour force is declining. The health care system therefore finds itself in difficulty.

Making federalism work in Italy

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07-Jan-2008

Alexandra Bibbee

Italy has launched itself in the federalist direction by decentralising spending, regulatory and tax powers in the late 1990s and reinforcing growing lower level responsibilities with a constitutional reform in 2001.

Health at a Glance 2007 - Press release in Italian

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13-Nov-2007

Health at a Glance 2007: L’assistenza sanitaria continua a progredire nei paesi OCSE, ma sono necessari miglioramenti nella gestione delle malattie croniche – solo la meta’ dei diabetici riceve un regolare screening oculistico.

Trends in Severe Disability Among Elderly People (Health Working Paper No. 26)

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30-Mar-2007

Gaétan Lafortune, Gaëlle Balestat

As the number and share of the population aged 65 and over will continue to grow steadily in OECD countries over the next decades, improvements in the functional status of elderly people could help mitigate the rise in the demand for, and hence expenditure on, long-term care.

Briefing note for OECD Health Data 2006: ITALY

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26-Jun-2006

Total health spending accounted for 8.4% of GDP in Italy in 2004, half a percentage point lower than the average of 8.9% in OECD countries.

Uno Sguardo alla Sanità - Indicatori OCSE 2005. Riassunto in Italiano

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08-Nov-2005

This third edition of Health at a Glance – OECD Indicators 2005 provides the latest comparable data and trends on different aspects of the performance of health systems in OECD countries.

Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti

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14-Jan-2004

A member of  the National Economic Research Organisations (NERO).