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This paper looks at the change in the burden of disease to which health systems have had to respond over the last 50 years since the founding of the OECD in 1961. Whilst infectious diseases were the priority of health systems 50 years ago, the focus is now on chronic diseases, including multiple chronic conditions. How are health systems coping with the challenge and what international measures are being taken?
Presentation given by Gerard Anderson, Johns Hopkins University, United States
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Increasing life expectancy and falling birth rates are resulting in an ageing population. This paper looks at how these demographic changes should be considered by policy makers. They need not be the cause of fiscal problems and intergenerational conflict; on the contrary, an effective healthy ageing strategy can deliver a more productive and independent population, keeping people out of institutional care.
Presentation given by Michael Hodin, Global Coalition on Ageing Presentation given by Anand Parekh, US Department of Health and Human Services Presentation given by Aaron Cohen, Discussant, Ministry of Health, Israel
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This paper focuses on the financing challenge facing all OECD countries a growing elderly population with complex health needs. Dispite a shared problem, countries responses vary widely. The challenges and possible reponses are explored in this paper, which argues that we are at a vital crossroads in the issue.
Presentation given by Geoffrey Anderson, University of Toronto, Canada Presentation given by Partick Jeurissen, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, Netherlands
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Reconfiguring health professions in times of multiple morbidity: eight recommendations for change Health care provision is highly specialised and fragmented. The paper analyses deficiencies in the organisation of health professions in the light of increasing demands due to multiple morbidities, and proposes some challenging suggestions for future reform.
Presentation given by Nicolaas Sieds Klazinga, OECD Secretariat Presentation given by David Gordon, World Federation for Medical Education
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Health Sector innovation and partnership: policy responses to the new economic context There are key organisational implications for health care systems steming from demographic and technological developments and the long-term fundamental shift of wealth creation away from developed nations toward the emerging economies. Current responses are explored and future strategies assessed.
Presentation given by Johan Calltorp, Nordic School of Public Health in Gothenburg, Sweden |
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BIAC Task Force on Health Care
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Aart de Geus, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD |
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Geoffrey Anderson, University of Toronto |
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Nicole Denjoy, Chair of the BIAC Task Force on Health Care Policy |
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Jane Halton, Secretary of the Department of Health and Ageing, Australia, Chair of the OECD Health Committee |
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Gerard Anderson, Johns Hopkins University |
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Niek Klazinga, Head of the OECD Health Care Quality Indicators project, OECD Secretariat |
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Michael Hodin, Executive Director, Global Coalition on Ageing |
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Christopher A. Viehbacher, CEO, Sanofi |
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Anand Parekh, Deputy Assistant Secretary, US Department of Health and Human Services |
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Johan Calltorp, Nordic School of Public Health in Gothenburg |
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Fernando Álvarez Del Río, Head of Economic Analysis Unit, Ministry of Health, Mexico |
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Richard Saltman, Emory University, United States
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