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No. 60 | 29 Jan 2013 |
Health Spending Growth at Zero
Health spending slowed markedly or fell in many OECD countries recently after years of continuous growth, according to OECD Health Data 2012. As a result of the global economic crisis which began in 2008, a zero rate of growth in health expenditure... |
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No. 61 | 25 Mar 2013 |
International Variations in a Selected Number of Surgical Procedures
This paper summarises recent international data on rates of five surgical procedures (i.e. caesarean, hysterectomy, prostatectomy, hip replacement and appendectomy) across OECD countries. It examines trends over time and compares age- and... |
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No. 62 | 26 Jun 2013 |
Health Workforce Planning in OECD Countries
Health workforce planning aims to achieve a proper balance between the supply and demand for different categories of health workers, in both the short and longer-term. Workforce planning in the health sector is particularly important, given the time... |
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No. 63 | 11 Jul 2013 |
Value in Pharmaceutical Pricing
This study analyses how 14 OECD Countries refer to “value” when making decisions on reimbursement and prices of new medicines. It details the type of outcomes considered, the perspective and methods adopted for economic evaluation when used; and the... |
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No. 64 | 11 Oct 2013 |
Managing Hospital Volumes: Germany and Experiences from OECD Countries
To help inform a conference organised by the Germany Ministry of Health (BMG) and the OECD on ‘Managing Hospital Volumes’ on the 11th April 2013, the OECD Secretariat produced this paper giving an international perspective on Germany’s situation and... |
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No. 67 | 18 Nov 2013 |
Measuring and Comparing Health Care Waiting Times in OECD Countries
Waiting times for elective (non-emergency) treatments are a key health policy concern in several OECD countries. This study describes common measures on waiting times across OECD countries from administrative data. It focuses on common elective... |
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No. 66 | 11 Dec 2013 |
The Role of Fiscal Policies in Health Promotion
Taxes and other fiscal measures on health-related commodities are in widespread use. Alcoholic beverages and tobacco products have been subjected to taxation for a long time in most countries. Several OECD governments have passed legislation to... |
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No. 69 | 03 Apr 2014 |
Geographic Imbalances in Doctor Supply and Policy Responses
Doctors are distributed unequally across different regions in virtually all OECD countries, and this causes concern about how to continue to ensure access to health services everywhere. In particular access to services in rural regions is the focus... |
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No. 68 | 03 Apr 2014 |
Health Spending Continues to Stagnate in Many OECD Countries
The global economic crisis which began in 2008 has had a dramatic effect on health spending across OECD countries. Estimates of expenditure on health released back in 2012 showed that, for the first time, health spending had slowed markedly or fallen... |
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No. 70 | 12 Jun 2014 |
Pricing and competition in Specialist Medical Services
Major disparities in the cost of health care have made the pricing of specialist and hospital services a contentious issue in South Africa, particularly in the private sector. To help inform policy debate, this paper profiles selected experiences on... |
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No. 74 | 07 Jul 2014 |
Mental Health Analysis Profiles (MhAPs): Scotland
As part of a wider project on mental health in OECD countries, a series of descriptive profiles have been prepared, intended to provide descriptive, easily comprehensible, highly informative accounts of the mental health systems of OECD countries.... |
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No. 71 | 07 Jul 2014 |
Mental Health Analysis Profiles (MhAPs): Italy
As part of a wider project on mental health in OECD countries, a series of descriptive profiles have been prepared, intended to provide descriptive, easily comprehensible, highly informative accounts of the mental health systems of OECD countries.... |
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No. 72 | 10 Jul 2014 |
Mental Health Analysis Profiles (MhAPs): Finland
As part of a wider project on mental health in OECD countries, a series of descriptive profiles have been prepared, intended to provide descriptive, easily comprehensible, highly informative accounts of the mental health systems of OECD countries.... |
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No. 73 | 25 Aug 2014 |
Mental Health Analysis Profiles (MhAPs): Netherlands
As part of a wider project on mental health in OECD countries, a series of descriptive profiles have been prepared, intended to provide descriptive, easily comprehensible, highly informative accounts of the mental health systems of OECD countries.... |
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No. 75 | 26 Aug 2014 |
Comparing Hospital and Health Prices and Volumes Internationally
Health services account for a large and increasing share of production and expenditure in OECD and Eurostat countries but there are also noticeable differences between countries in expenditure per capita. Whether such differences are due to more... |
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No. 76 | 01 Sept 2014 |
Health, Austerity and Economic Crisis
The economic crisis that started in 2008 has had a profound impact on the lives of citizens. Millions of people lost their job, saw their life-savings disappear and experienced prolonged financial hardship. The economic crisis has also led a number... |
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No. 77 | 05 Sept 2014 |
Wage-setting in the Hospital Sector
This paper examines wage setting mechanisms for health workers in hospitals across eight different OECD countries. It describes similarities and differences and how fixed or fluid these approaches have been in recent years through health system... |
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No. 78 | 27 Mar 2015 |
Tapering payments in hospitals
This study covers “tapering scale” mechanism in hospital payments, i.e. mechanisms linking unit prices to the volume of services produced. This paper begins with an overview of hospital services and hospital payment methods in OECD countries,... |
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No. 80 | 01 May 2015 |
Assessing the impacts of alcohol policies
Alcohol policies have significant potential to curb alcohol-related harms, improve health, increase productivity, reduce crime and violence, and cut government expenditure. The WHO Global Strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol provides a menu... |
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No. 79 | 01 May 2015 |
Alcohol consumption and harmful drinking
Harmful alcohol consumption is one of the leading causes of ill health and premature mortality worldwide. This paper illustrates trends and social disparities in alcohol consumption and harmful drinking in 20 OECD countries. Analyses are based on... |
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Health Spending Growth at Zero
David Morgan and Roberto Astolfi
29 Jan 2013
Health spending slowed markedly or fell in many OECD countries recently after years of continuous growth, according to OECD Health Data 2012. As a result of the global economic crisis which began in 2008, a zero rate of growth in health expenditure...
International Variations in a Selected Number of Surgical Procedures
Klim McPherson, Giorgia Gon and Maggie Scott
25 Mar 2013
This paper summarises recent international data on rates of five surgical procedures (i.e. caesarean, hysterectomy, prostatectomy, hip replacement and appendectomy) across OECD countries. It examines trends over time and compares age- and...
Health Workforce Planning in OECD Countries
Tomoko Ono, Gaétan Lafortune and Michael Schoenstein
26 Jun 2013
Health workforce planning aims to achieve a proper balance between the supply and demand for different categories of health workers, in both the short and longer-term. Workforce planning in the health sector is particularly important, given the time...
Value in Pharmaceutical Pricing
Valérie Paris and Annalisa Belloni
11 Jul 2013
This study analyses how 14 OECD Countries refer to “value” when making decisions on reimbursement and prices of new medicines. It details the type of outcomes considered, the perspective and methods adopted for economic evaluation when used; and the...
Managing Hospital Volumes: Germany and Experiences from OECD Countries
Ankit Kumar and Michael Schoenstein
11 Oct 2013
To help inform a conference organised by the Germany Ministry of Health (BMG) and the OECD on ‘Managing Hospital Volumes’ on the 11th April 2013, the OECD Secretariat produced this paper giving an international perspective on Germany’s situation and...
Measuring and Comparing Health Care Waiting Times in OECD Countries
Luigi Siciliani, Valerie Moran and Michael Borowitz
18 Nov 2013
Waiting times for elective (non-emergency) treatments are a key health policy concern in several OECD countries. This study describes common measures on waiting times across OECD countries from administrative data. It focuses on common elective...
The Role of Fiscal Policies in Health Promotion
Franco Sassi, Annalisa Belloni and Chiara Capobianco
11 Dec 2013
Taxes and other fiscal measures on health-related commodities are in widespread use. Alcoholic beverages and tobacco products have been subjected to taxation for a long time in most countries. Several OECD governments have passed legislation to...
Geographic Imbalances in Doctor Supply and Policy Responses
Tomoko Ono, Michael Schoenstein and James Buchan
03 Apr 2014
Doctors are distributed unequally across different regions in virtually all OECD countries, and this causes concern about how to continue to ensure access to health services everywhere. In particular access to services in rural regions is the focus...
Health Spending Continues to Stagnate in Many OECD Countries
David Morgan and Roberto Astolfi
03 Apr 2014
The global economic crisis which began in 2008 has had a dramatic effect on health spending across OECD countries. Estimates of expenditure on health released back in 2012 showed that, for the first time, health spending had slowed markedly or fallen...
Pricing and competition in Specialist Medical Services
Ankit Kumar, Grégoire de Lagasnerie, Frederica Maiorano and Alessia Forti
12 Jun 2014
Major disparities in the cost of health care have made the pricing of specialist and hospital services a contentious issue in South Africa, particularly in the private sector. To help inform policy debate, this paper profiles selected experiences on...
Mental Health Analysis Profiles (MhAPs): Scotland
Alessia Forti
07 Jul 2014
As part of a wider project on mental health in OECD countries, a series of descriptive profiles have been prepared, intended to provide descriptive, easily comprehensible, highly informative accounts of the mental health systems of OECD countries....
Mental Health Analysis Profiles (MhAPs): Italy
Alessia Forti
07 Jul 2014
As part of a wider project on mental health in OECD countries, a series of descriptive profiles have been prepared, intended to provide descriptive, easily comprehensible, highly informative accounts of the mental health systems of OECD countries....
Mental Health Analysis Profiles (MhAPs): Finland
Pauliina Patana
10 Jul 2014
As part of a wider project on mental health in OECD countries, a series of descriptive profiles have been prepared, intended to provide descriptive, easily comprehensible, highly informative accounts of the mental health systems of OECD countries....
Mental Health Analysis Profiles (MhAPs): Netherlands
Alessia Forti, Chris Nas, Alex van Geldrop, Gerdien Franx, Ionela Petrea, Ype van Strien and Patrick Jeurissen
25 Aug 2014
As part of a wider project on mental health in OECD countries, a series of descriptive profiles have been prepared, intended to provide descriptive, easily comprehensible, highly informative accounts of the mental health systems of OECD countries....
Comparing Hospital and Health Prices and Volumes Internationally
Francette Koechlin, Paul Konijn, Luca Lorenzoni and Paul Schreyer
26 Aug 2014
Health services account for a large and increasing share of production and expenditure in OECD and Eurostat countries but there are also noticeable differences between countries in expenditure per capita. Whether such differences are due to more...
Health, Austerity and Economic Crisis
Kees van Gool and Mark Pearson
01 Sept 2014
The economic crisis that started in 2008 has had a profound impact on the lives of citizens. Millions of people lost their job, saw their life-savings disappear and experienced prolonged financial hardship. The economic crisis has also led a number...
Wage-setting in the Hospital Sector
James Buchan, Ankit Kumar and Michael Schoenstein
05 Sept 2014
This paper examines wage setting mechanisms for health workers in hospitals across eight different OECD countries. It describes similarities and differences and how fixed or fluid these approaches have been in recent years through health system...
Tapering payments in hospitals
Grégoire de Lagasnerie, Valérie Paris, Michael Mueller and Ankit Kumar
27 Mar 2015
This study covers “tapering scale” mechanism in hospital payments, i.e. mechanisms linking unit prices to the volume of services produced. This paper begins with an overview of hospital services and hospital payment methods in OECD countries,...
Assessing the impacts of alcohol policies
Michele Cecchini, Marion Devaux and Franco Sassi
01 May 2015
Alcohol policies have significant potential to curb alcohol-related harms, improve health, increase productivity, reduce crime and violence, and cut government expenditure. The WHO Global Strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol provides a menu...
Alcohol consumption and harmful drinking
Marion Devaux and Franco Sassi
01 May 2015
Harmful alcohol consumption is one of the leading causes of ill health and premature mortality worldwide. This paper illustrates trends and social disparities in alcohol consumption and harmful drinking in 20 OECD countries. Analyses are based on...