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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. 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. 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. 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. 59 | 31 Oct 2012 |
A Comparative Analysis of Health Forecasting Methods
Concerns about health expenditure growth and its long-term sustainability have stimulated the development of health expenditure forecasting models in many OECD countries. This comparative analysis reviewed 25 models that were developed by, or used... |
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No. 58 | 10 Jul 2012 |
Income-Related Inequalities in Health Service Utilisation in 19 OECD Countries, 2008-2009
This Working Paper examines income-related inequalities in health care service utilisation in OECD countries. It extends a previous analysis (Van Doorslaer and Masseria, 2004) to 2008-2009 for 13 countries, and adds new results for 6 countries, for... |
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No. 57 | 30 Aug 2011 |
The Impact of Pay Increases on Nurses' Labour Market
Nurses are usually the most numerous professionals in the healthcare workforce, and their contribution is a core component in attaining the policy objectives of improved productivity, quality of care and effectiveness in the health sector. The recent... |
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No. 56 | 14 Apr 2011 |
Description of Alternative Approaches to Measure and Place a Value on Hospital Products in Seven OECD Countries
This paper provides a description of the classification systems used to measure hospital services in selected OECD countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Norway, United Kingdom (England), and the United States. Three classifications are... |
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No. 55 | 31 Jan 2011 |
Mortality Amenable to Health Care in 31 OECD Countries
This study assesses the potential of the concept of “mortality amenable to health care” as an indicator of outcome for health care systems. It presents estimates of the mortality amenable to health care in 31 OECD countries for the period 1997-2007.... |
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No. 54 | 31 Aug 2010 |
Les pratiques infirmières avancées
Beaucoup de pays cherchent à améliorer la prestation des soins de santé en examinant les rôles des différents corps professionnels, y compris les infirmières. Le développement de nouveaux rôles infirmiers plus avancés peut contribuer à améliorer... |
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No. 54 | 08 Jul 2010 |
Nurses in Advanced Roles
Many countries are seeking to improve health care delivery by reviewing the roles of health professionals, including nurses. Developing new and more advanced roles for nurses could improve access to care in the face of a limited or diminishing supply... |
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No. 53 | 08 Jul 2010 |
Comparing Price Levels of Hospital Services Across Countries
Health services account for a large and increasing share of production and expenditure in OECD countries but there are also noticeable differences between countries in expenditure per capita. Whether such differences are due to more services consumed... |
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No. 52 | 26 May 2010 |
Guidelines for Improving the Comparability and Availability of Private Health Expenditures Under the System of Health Accounts Framework
This paper reports on a project to improve the comparability and availability of private health expenditure under the joint health accounts questionnaire (JHAQ) data collection. The JHAQ is a framework for joint data collection in the area of health... |
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No. 51 | 29 Mar 2010 |
Effective Ways to Realise Policy Reforms in Health Systems
Sometimes it is argued that the content of a reform is less important in determining whether or not it receives public and legislative approval than the timing of the proposal; the way in which the reform is presented; the discussions with... |
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No. 50 | 28 Apr 2010 |
Health Systems Institutional Characteristics
In 2008, the OECD launched a survey to collect information on the health systems characteristics of member countries. This paper presents the informaton provided by 29 of these countries in 2009. It describes country-specific arrangements to organise... |
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No. 49 | 21 May 2010 |
The Challenge of Financing Health Care in the Current Crisis
The ratio of health expenditure to GDP, which in macroeconomic terms is an indicator which summarises the financing needs of a national health system, is likely to rise in countries for which the GDP falls. Over the past four decades, health... |
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No. 48 | 20 Nov 2009 |
Improving Lifestyles, Tackling Obesity: The Health and Economic Impact of Prevention Strategies
Overweight and obesity rates have been increasing relentlessly over recent decades in all industrialised countries, as well as in many lower income countries. OECD analyses of trends over time support the grim picture drawn in the international... |
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No. 47 | 23 Nov 2009 |
Health Care Quality Indicators Project
This paper reports on the progress in the research and development of the set of patient safety indicators developed by the Health Care Quality Indicators project. The indicators presented here have been recommended by an expert group for further... |
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No. 46 | 15 Jun 2009 |
Éducation et obésité dans quatre pays de l'OCDE
An epidemic of obesity has been developing in virtually all OECD countries over the last 30 years. Existing evidence provides strong suggestions that such epidemic has affected certain social groups more than others. In particular, education appears... |
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No. 45 | 20 Mar 2009 |
Obésité : Analyses des tendances dans les pays de l'OCDE
This paper provides an overview of past and projected future trends in adult overweight and obesity in OECD countries. Using individual-level data from repeated cross-sectional national surveys, some of the main determinants and pathways underlying... |
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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...
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...
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 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...
A Comparative Analysis of Health Forecasting Methods
Roberto Astolfi, Luca Lorenzoni and Jillian Oderkirk
31 Oct 2012
Concerns about health expenditure growth and its long-term sustainability have stimulated the development of health expenditure forecasting models in many OECD countries. This comparative analysis reviewed 25 models that were developed by, or used...
Income-Related Inequalities in Health Service Utilisation in 19 OECD Countries, 2008-2009
Marion Devaux and Michael de Looper
10 Jul 2012
This Working Paper examines income-related inequalities in health care service utilisation in OECD countries. It extends a previous analysis (Van Doorslaer and Masseria, 2004) to 2008-2009 for 13 countries, and adds new results for 6 countries, for...
The Impact of Pay Increases on Nurses' Labour Market
James Buchan and Steven Black
30 Aug 2011
Nurses are usually the most numerous professionals in the healthcare workforce, and their contribution is a core component in attaining the policy objectives of improved productivity, quality of care and effectiveness in the health sector. The recent...
Description of Alternative Approaches to Measure and Place a Value on Hospital Products in Seven OECD Countries
Luca Lorenzoni and Mark Pearson
14 Apr 2011
This paper provides a description of the classification systems used to measure hospital services in selected OECD countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Norway, United Kingdom (England), and the United States. Three classifications are...
Mortality Amenable to Health Care in 31 OECD Countries
Juan G. Gay, Valérie Paris, Marion Devaux and Michael de Looper
31 Jan 2011
This study assesses the potential of the concept of “mortality amenable to health care” as an indicator of outcome for health care systems. It presents estimates of the mortality amenable to health care in 31 OECD countries for the period 1997-2007....
Les pratiques infirmières avancées
Marie-Laure Delamaire and Gaétan Lafortune
31 Aug 2010
Beaucoup de pays cherchent à améliorer la prestation des soins de santé en examinant les rôles des différents corps professionnels, y compris les infirmières. Le développement de nouveaux rôles infirmiers plus avancés peut contribuer à améliorer...
Nurses in Advanced Roles
Marie-Laure Delamaire and Gaétan Lafortune
08 Jul 2010
Many countries are seeking to improve health care delivery by reviewing the roles of health professionals, including nurses. Developing new and more advanced roles for nurses could improve access to care in the face of a limited or diminishing supply...
Comparing Price Levels of Hospital Services Across Countries
Francette Koechlin, Luca Lorenzoni and Paul Schreyer
08 Jul 2010
Health services account for a large and increasing share of production and expenditure in OECD countries but there are also noticeable differences between countries in expenditure per capita. Whether such differences are due to more services consumed...
Guidelines for Improving the Comparability and Availability of Private Health Expenditures Under the System of Health Accounts Framework
Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya and Luca Lorenzoni
26 May 2010
This paper reports on a project to improve the comparability and availability of private health expenditure under the joint health accounts questionnaire (JHAQ) data collection. The JHAQ is a framework for joint data collection in the area of health...
Effective Ways to Realise Policy Reforms in Health Systems
Jeremy Hurst
29 Mar 2010
Sometimes it is argued that the content of a reform is less important in determining whether or not it receives public and legislative approval than the timing of the proposal; the way in which the reform is presented; the discussions with...
Health Systems Institutional Characteristics
Valérie Paris, Marion Devaux and Lihan Wei
28 Apr 2010
In 2008, the OECD launched a survey to collect information on the health systems characteristics of member countries. This paper presents the informaton provided by 29 of these countries in 2009. It describes country-specific arrangements to organise...
The Challenge of Financing Health Care in the Current Crisis
Peter Scherer and Marion Devaux
21 May 2010
The ratio of health expenditure to GDP, which in macroeconomic terms is an indicator which summarises the financing needs of a national health system, is likely to rise in countries for which the GDP falls. Over the past four decades, health...
Improving Lifestyles, Tackling Obesity: The Health and Economic Impact of Prevention Strategies
Franco Sassi, Michele Cecchini, Jeremy Lauer and Dan Chisholm
20 Nov 2009
Overweight and obesity rates have been increasing relentlessly over recent decades in all industrialised countries, as well as in many lower income countries. OECD analyses of trends over time support the grim picture drawn in the international...
Health Care Quality Indicators Project
Saskia Drösler, Patrick Romano and Lihan Wei
23 Nov 2009
This paper reports on the progress in the research and development of the set of patient safety indicators developed by the Health Care Quality Indicators project. The indicators presented here have been recommended by an expert group for further...
Éducation et obésité dans quatre pays de l'OCDE
Franco Sassi, Marion Devaux, Jody Church, Michele Cecchini and Francesca Borgonovi
15 Jun 2009
An epidemic of obesity has been developing in virtually all OECD countries over the last 30 years. Existing evidence provides strong suggestions that such epidemic has affected certain social groups more than others. In particular, education appears...
Obésité : Analyses des tendances dans les pays de l'OCDE
Franco Sassi, Marion Devaux, Michele Cecchini and Elena Rusticelli
20 Mar 2009
This paper provides an overview of past and projected future trends in adult overweight and obesity in OECD countries. Using individual-level data from repeated cross-sectional national surveys, some of the main determinants and pathways underlying...