Health at a Glance 2023
OECD Indicators
Health at a Glance provides a comprehensive set of indicators on population health and health system performance across OECD members and key emerging economies. These cover health status, risk factors for health, access to and quality of healthcare, and health system resources. Analysis draws from the latest comparable official national statistics and other sources.
Alongside indicator-by-indicator analysis, an overview chapter summarises the comparative performance of countries and major trends. This edition also has a special focus on digital health, which measures the digital readiness of OECD countries’ health systems, and outlines what countries need to do accelerate the digital health transformation.
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Avoidable hospital admissions
Asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and congestive heart failure (CHF) are widely prevalent long-term conditions. Common to all three conditions is that the evidence base for effective treatment is well established, and much of it can be delivered by primary care. A high-performing primary care system, where accessible and high-quality services are provided, can reduce acute deterioration in people living with asthma, COPD or CHF. Hospital admissions for these conditions are largely avoidable and are therefore used as a marker of quality and access to primary care, with the proviso that very low admissions rates may also partly reflect reduced access to acute care.
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