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No. 86 | 26 Nov 2015 |
The Labour Market Impacts of Obesity, Smoking, Alcohol Use and Related Chronic Diseases
This paper examines the labour market impacts of lifestyle risk factors and associated chronic diseases, in terms of employment opportunities, wages, productivity, sick leave, early retirement and receipt of disability benefits. It provides a review... |
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No. 85 | 17 Feb 2016 |
International Comparison of South African Private Hospital Price Levels
The health system in South Africa is unique in many ways. South Africa spends 41.8% of total health expenditures on private voluntary health insurance – more than any OECD country – but only 17% of the population – mostly high income citizens - can... |
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No. 84 | 12 Oct 2015 |
Public Expenditure Projections for Health and Long-Term Care for China Until 2030
In recent years, China has seen an unprecedented expansion of health insurance for its population in its quest to achieve universal health coverage. By 2011, 95% of the Chinese population was insured up from less than 50% in 2005 through public or... |
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No. 83 | 01 Aug 2015 |
Emergency Care Services
Emergency departments are the front line of health care systems and play a critical role in ensuring an efficient and high-quality response for patients in stress or crisis situations. A growing demand for emergency care might however reduce... |
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No. 82 | 08 Jul 2015 |
Mental Health Analysis Profiles (MhAPs): Sweden
Mental ill-health is a significant issue in Sweden, with both mild-to-moderate and severe disorders representing a significant burden of ill health. Mild and moderate mental health problems constitute the greatest number of cases, and such disorders... |
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No. 81 | 08 Jul 2015 |
Mental Health Analysis Profiles (MhAPs): England
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. 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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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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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The Labour Market Impacts of Obesity, Smoking, Alcohol Use and Related Chronic Diseases
Marion Devaux and Franco Sassi
26 Nov 2015
This paper examines the labour market impacts of lifestyle risk factors and associated chronic diseases, in terms of employment opportunities, wages, productivity, sick leave, early retirement and receipt of disability benefits. It provides a review...
International Comparison of South African Private Hospital Price Levels
Luca Lorenzoni and Tomáš Roubal
17 Feb 2016
The health system in South Africa is unique in many ways. South Africa spends 41.8% of total health expenditures on private voluntary health insurance – more than any OECD country – but only 17% of the population – mostly high income citizens - can...
Public Expenditure Projections for Health and Long-Term Care for China Until 2030
Luca Lorenzoni, David Morgan, Yuki Murakami and Chris James
12 Oct 2015
In recent years, China has seen an unprecedented expansion of health insurance for its population in its quest to achieve universal health coverage. By 2011, 95% of the Chinese population was insured up from less than 50% in 2005 through public or...
Emergency Care Services
Caroline Berchet
01 Aug 2015
Emergency departments are the front line of health care systems and play a critical role in ensuring an efficient and high-quality response for patients in stress or crisis situations. A growing demand for emergency care might however reduce...
Mental Health Analysis Profiles (MhAPs): Sweden
Pauliina Patana
08 Jul 2015
Mental ill-health is a significant issue in Sweden, with both mild-to-moderate and severe disorders representing a significant burden of ill health. Mild and moderate mental health problems constitute the greatest number of cases, and such disorders...
Mental Health Analysis Profiles (MhAPs): England
Emily Hewlett and Kierran Horner
08 Jul 2015
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....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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): 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....
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): 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....
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...
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...
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...