Society at a Glance 2006
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Society at a Glance 2006

OECD Social Indicators

OECD's biennial stocktaking of social indicators of OECD countries, this unique publication has been revised to be structurally similar to OECD's annual Factbook.  For each of the almost 40 indicators provided, a two-page spread shows on the left side definitions of indicators and commentaries on trends, while the right side shows tables and graphs highlighting key messages found in the data. This edition includes general context indicators such as income per capita, self-sufficiency indicators such as mothers in paid employment; equity indicators such as gender wage gaps; health indicators such as sick-related absences from work; and social cohesion indicators such as trust in political institutions. This edition includes StatLinks, URLs under each table and graph that link to Excel spreadsheets containing the underlying data.
Publication Date :
22 Feb 2007
DOI :
10.1787/soc_glance-2006-en
 
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Health Care Expenditure You or your institution have access to this content

Authors:
OECD
Pages :
90–91
DOI :
10.1787/soc_glance-2006-25-en

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Total expenditure on health measures the final consumption of health care goods and services (i.e. current health expenditure) plus capital investment in health care infrastructure. It includes spending by both public and private sources (including households) on medical goods and services, as well as expenditures of public health and prevention programmes and administration. Excluded are a number of health-related expenditure such as training, research and environmental health. The two major components of total current health expenditure are: expenditure on personal health care and expenditure on collective services.
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