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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 |
Education and Obesity in Four OECD Countries
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 |
The Obesity Epidemic: Analysis of Past and Projected Future Trends in Selected OECD Countries
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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No. 44 | 17 Mar 2009 |
The Long-Term Care Workforce: Overview and Strategies to Adapt Supply to a Growing Demand
This working paper offers an overview of the LTC workforce and reviews country responses to a growing demand for LTC workers. In the context of ageing societies, the importance of long-term care is growing in all OECD countries. In 2005, long-term... |
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No. 43 | 09 Mar 2009 |
Measuring Disparities in Health Status and in Access and Use of Health Care in OECD Countries
Most OECD countries have endorsed as major policy objectives the reduction of inequalities in health status and the principle of adequate or equal access to health care based on need. These policy objectives require an evidence-based approach to... |
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No. 42 | 16 Feb 2009 |
Policies for Healthy Ageing
This paper reviews policies in the area of healthy ageing. With the ageing of OECD countries’ population over coming decades, maintaining health in old age will become increasingly important. Successful policies in this area can increase the... |
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No. 41 | 18 Dec 2008 |
The Remuneration of General Practitioners and Specialists in 14 OECD Countries
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the remuneration of doctors in 14 OECD countries for which reasonably comparable data were available in OECD Health Data 2007 (Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,... |
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No. 40 | 16 Oct 2008 |
International Mobility of Health Professionals and Health Workforce Management in Canada
This report examines the role played by immigrant health workers in the Canadian health workforce but also the interactions between migration policies and education and health workforce management policies. Migrant health worker makes a significant... |
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No. 39 | 21 Oct 2008 |
Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies in Germany
This paper describes pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies in Germany, considering them in the broader environment in which they operate, and assesses their impact on the achievement of a number of policy goals. Pharmaceutical coverage is... |
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No. 38 | 13 Oct 2008 |
Migration of Health Workers
The UK has a population of 56 million, and most healthcare is delivered through the National Health Service (NHS). The NHS employs more than one million staff. In the late 1990s shortages of skilled staff were a main obstacle to improving services in... |
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No. 37 | 13 Oct 2008 |
The US Physician Workforce
This review surveys trends in physician supply in the United States from 1980 to the present with particular attention to the participation of International Medical Graduates. It discussed the composition of the physician workforce with regards to... |
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No. 36 | 01 Oct 2008 |
Projet OCDE sur la migration des professionnels de santé
This report examines health workforce demographics in France, together with recent trends in migration policies regarding health professionals. It also analyses workforce planning and the possible role of the recruitment of foreign health workers in... |
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No. 35 | 01 Oct 2008 |
Nurse Workforce Challenges in the United States
The United States has the largest professional nurse workforce in the world numbering close to 3 million but does not produce enough nurses to meet its growing demand. A shortage of close to a million professional nurses is projected to evolve by... |
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No. 34 | 01 Oct 2008 |
Mismatches in the Formal Sector, Expansion of the Informal Sector
Italy has an aging population which is placing a strain on the public health system and on families. At the same time, it has a distorted market of supply of health professionals. Past over enrolment in medical faculties has produced a current glut... |
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No. 33 | 22 May 2008 |
Health Workforce and International Migration
This paper examines health workforce and migration policies in New Zealand, with a special focus on the international recruitment of doctors and nurses. 2. The health workforce in New Zealand, as in all OECD countries, plays a central role in the... |
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No. 32 | 25 Mar 2008 |
The Prevention of Lifestyle-Related Chronic Diseases
This paper provides an economic perspective on the prevention of chronic diseases, focusing in particular on diseases linked to lifestyle choices. The proposed economic framework is centred on the hypothesis that the prevention of chronic diseases... |
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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...
Education and Obesity in Four OECD Countries
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...
The Obesity Epidemic: Analysis of Past and Projected Future Trends in Selected OECD Countries
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...
The Long-Term Care Workforce: Overview and Strategies to Adapt Supply to a Growing Demand
Rie Fujisawa and Francesca Colombo
17 Mar 2009
This working paper offers an overview of the LTC workforce and reviews country responses to a growing demand for LTC workers. In the context of ageing societies, the importance of long-term care is growing in all OECD countries. In 2005, long-term...
Measuring Disparities in Health Status and in Access and Use of Health Care in OECD Countries
Michael de Looper and Gaétan Lafortune
09 Mar 2009
Most OECD countries have endorsed as major policy objectives the reduction of inequalities in health status and the principle of adequate or equal access to health care based on need. These policy objectives require an evidence-based approach to...
Policies for Healthy Ageing
Howard Oxley
16 Feb 2009
This paper reviews policies in the area of healthy ageing. With the ageing of OECD countries’ population over coming decades, maintaining health in old age will become increasingly important. Successful policies in this area can increase the...
The Remuneration of General Practitioners and Specialists in 14 OECD Countries
Rie Fujisawa and Gaétan Lafortune
18 Dec 2008
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the remuneration of doctors in 14 OECD countries for which reasonably comparable data were available in OECD Health Data 2007 (Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,...
International Mobility of Health Professionals and Health Workforce Management in Canada
Jean-Christophe Dumont, Pascal Zurn, Jody Church and Christine LeThi
16 Oct 2008
This report examines the role played by immigrant health workers in the Canadian health workforce but also the interactions between migration policies and education and health workforce management policies. Migrant health worker makes a significant...
Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies in Germany
Valérie Paris and Elizabeth Docteur
21 Oct 2008
This paper describes pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies in Germany, considering them in the broader environment in which they operate, and assesses their impact on the achievement of a number of policy goals. Pharmaceutical coverage is...
Migration of Health Workers
James Buchan, Susanna Baldwin and Miranda Munro
13 Oct 2008
The UK has a population of 56 million, and most healthcare is delivered through the National Health Service (NHS). The NHS employs more than one million staff. In the late 1990s shortages of skilled staff were a main obstacle to improving services in...
The US Physician Workforce
Richard Cooper
13 Oct 2008
This review surveys trends in physician supply in the United States from 1980 to the present with particular attention to the participation of International Medical Graduates. It discussed the composition of the physician workforce with regards to...
Projet OCDE sur la migration des professionnels de santé
OECD
01 Oct 2008
This report examines health workforce demographics in France, together with recent trends in migration policies regarding health professionals. It also analyses workforce planning and the possible role of the recruitment of foreign health workers in...
Nurse Workforce Challenges in the United States
Linda H. Aiken and Robyn Cheung
01 Oct 2008
The United States has the largest professional nurse workforce in the world numbering close to 3 million but does not produce enough nurses to meet its growing demand. A shortage of close to a million professional nurses is projected to evolve by...
Mismatches in the Formal Sector, Expansion of the Informal Sector
Jonathan Chaloff
01 Oct 2008
Italy has an aging population which is placing a strain on the public health system and on families. At the same time, it has a distorted market of supply of health professionals. Past over enrolment in medical faculties has produced a current glut...
Health Workforce and International Migration
Pascal Zurn and Jean-Christophe Dumont
22 May 2008
This paper examines health workforce and migration policies in New Zealand, with a special focus on the international recruitment of doctors and nurses. 2. The health workforce in New Zealand, as in all OECD countries, plays a central role in the...
The Prevention of Lifestyle-Related Chronic Diseases
Franco Sassi and Jeremy Hurst
25 Mar 2008
This paper provides an economic perspective on the prevention of chronic diseases, focusing in particular on diseases linked to lifestyle choices. The proposed economic framework is centred on the hypothesis that the prevention of chronic diseases...