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07 Nov 2018 |
Stemming the Superbug Tide
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a large and growing problem with the potential for enormous health and economic consequences, globally. As such, AMR has become a central issue at the top of the public health agenda of OECD countries and beyond. In... |
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29 Nov 2018 |
Pharmaceutical Innovation and Access to Medicines
This report reviews the important role of medicines in health sytems, describes recent trends in pharmaceutical expenditure and financing, and summarises the approaches used by OECD countries to determine coverage and pricing. |
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12 Jun 2018 |
Care Needed
This report presents newly collected data on the quality of dementia care in OECD countries. By providing the most up-to-date and comprehensive cross-country assessment of dementia care, it can help countries to improve their care systems today, and... |
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29 Jun 2016 |
Better Ways to Pay for Health Care
This report looks at payment reform, one of many policy tools being used to improve health system performance. |
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15 Mar 2016 |
Health Workforce Policies in OECD Countries
This publication reviews key trends and new policy priorities in relation to the health workforce in OECD countries following the economic crisis. |
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16 Jun 2015 |
Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes: Policies for Better Health and Quality of Care
This report examines how countries perform in their ability to prevent, manage and treat cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes. |
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05 Oct 2015 |
Health Data Governance
This report identifies eight key data governance mechanisms to maximise benefits to patients and to societies from the collection, linkage and analysis of health data, and to minimise risks to both patient privacy and the security of health data. |
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13 Mar 2015 |
Addressing Dementia
This book examines the large and growing human and financial cost of dementia and discusses policy options for improving care, controlling costs, and facilitating research. |
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16 Sept 2014 |
Geographic Variations in Health Care
This report helps policy makers better understand the issues and challenges around geographic variations in health care provision and considers the policy options. |
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08 Jul 2014 |
Making Mental Health Count
This book addresses the high cost of mental illness, the organisation of care, changes and future directions for the mental health workforce, indicators for mental health care and quality, and tools for better governance of the system. |
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30 Oct 2013 |
Cancer Care
Cancer Care: Assuring Quality to Improve Survival surveys the policy trends in cancer care over recent years and looks at survival rates to identify the why some countries are doing better than others. |
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17 Jun 2013 |
A Good Life in Old Age?
This book offers evidence and examples of useful experiences to help policy makers, providers and experts measure and improve the quality of long-term care services. |
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15 May 2013 |
Strengthening Health Information Infrastructure for Health Care Quality Governance
This book, based on studies of 19 countries on the development and use of personal health data and of 25 countries on development and use of electronic health record systems, includes results showing good practices, new opportunities and data privacy... |
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04 Feb 2013 |
Waiting Time Policies in the Health Sector
This book provides a framework to understand why there are waiting lists for elective surgery in some OECD countries and not in others. It also describes how waiting times are measured in OECD countries and reviews different policy approaches to... |
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18 May 2011 |
Help Wanted?
This book examines the challenges countries are facing with regard to providing and paying for long-term care. |
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07 Oct 2010 |
Improving Value in Health Care
This publication describes what international comparable quality measures are currently available and how to link these measures to quality policies such as accreditation, practice guidelines, pay-for-performance, national safety programmes and... |
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07 Oct 2010 |
Value for Money in Health Spending
This publication examines current efforts to improve health care efficiency, including tools that show promise in helping health systems provide the best care for their money. |
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28 May 2010 |
Improving Health Sector Efficiency
Using lessons from case studies, this report identifies the opportunities offered by ICTs for the health sector and analyses under what conditions these technologies are most likely to result in efficiency and quality-of-care improvements. |
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02 Nov 2009 |
Achieving Better Value for Money in Health Care
This report report examines selected policies that may help countries better achieve the goal of improved health system efficiency and thus better value for money. |
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24 Sept 2008 |
Pharmaceutical Pricing Policies in a Global Market
This report assesses how pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies have contributed to the achievement of certain health policy objectives, and it examines the national and transnational effects of these policies. |
OECD Health Policy Studies
This series of publications analyses the organisation and performance of health systems, and factors explaining performance variations. Studies are conducted on such topics as co-ordination of care, pharmaceutical pricing, long-term care and disability, health workforce and international migration of health workers, information and communications technologies in health care, and the economics of prevention.
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- ISSN: 2074319X (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/2074319x
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Stemming the Superbug Tide
OECD
07 Nov 2018
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a large and growing problem with the potential for enormous health and economic consequences, globally. As such, AMR has become a central issue at the top of the public health agenda of OECD countries and beyond. In...
Pharmaceutical Innovation and Access to Medicines
OECD
29 Nov 2018
This report reviews the important role of medicines in health sytems, describes recent trends in pharmaceutical expenditure and financing, and summarises the approaches used by OECD countries to determine coverage and pricing.
Care Needed
OECD
12 Jun 2018
This report presents newly collected data on the quality of dementia care in OECD countries. By providing the most up-to-date and comprehensive cross-country assessment of dementia care, it can help countries to improve their care systems today, and...
Better Ways to Pay for Health Care
OECD
29 Jun 2016
This report looks at payment reform, one of many policy tools being used to improve health system performance.
Health Workforce Policies in OECD Countries
OECD
15 Mar 2016
This publication reviews key trends and new policy priorities in relation to the health workforce in OECD countries following the economic crisis.
Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes: Policies for Better Health and Quality of Care
OECD
16 Jun 2015
This report examines how countries perform in their ability to prevent, manage and treat cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes.
Health Data Governance
OECD
05 Oct 2015
This report identifies eight key data governance mechanisms to maximise benefits to patients and to societies from the collection, linkage and analysis of health data, and to minimise risks to both patient privacy and the security of health data.
Addressing Dementia
OECD
13 Mar 2015
This book examines the large and growing human and financial cost of dementia and discusses policy options for improving care, controlling costs, and facilitating research.
Geographic Variations in Health Care
OECD
16 Sept 2014
This report helps policy makers better understand the issues and challenges around geographic variations in health care provision and considers the policy options.
Making Mental Health Count
Emily Hewlett and Valerie Moran
08 Jul 2014
This book addresses the high cost of mental illness, the organisation of care, changes and future directions for the mental health workforce, indicators for mental health care and quality, and tools for better governance of the system.
Cancer Care
OECD
30 Oct 2013
Cancer Care: Assuring Quality to Improve Survival surveys the policy trends in cancer care over recent years and looks at survival rates to identify the why some countries are doing better than others.
A Good Life in Old Age?
OECD and European Union
17 Jun 2013
This book offers evidence and examples of useful experiences to help policy makers, providers and experts measure and improve the quality of long-term care services.
This book, based on studies of 19 countries on the development and use of personal health data and of 25 countries on development and use of electronic health record systems, includes results showing good practices, new opportunities and data privacy...
Waiting Time Policies in the Health Sector
OECD
04 Feb 2013
This book provides a framework to understand why there are waiting lists for elective surgery in some OECD countries and not in others. It also describes how waiting times are measured in OECD countries and reviews different policy approaches to...
Help Wanted?
Francesca Colombo, Ana Llena-Nozal, Jérôme Mercier and Frits Tjadens
18 May 2011
This book examines the challenges countries are facing with regard to providing and paying for long-term care.
Improving Value in Health Care
OECD
07 Oct 2010
This publication describes what international comparable quality measures are currently available and how to link these measures to quality policies such as accreditation, practice guidelines, pay-for-performance, national safety programmes and...
Value for Money in Health Spending
OECD
07 Oct 2010
This publication examines current efforts to improve health care efficiency, including tools that show promise in helping health systems provide the best care for their money.
Improving Health Sector Efficiency
OECD
28 May 2010
Using lessons from case studies, this report identifies the opportunities offered by ICTs for the health sector and analyses under what conditions these technologies are most likely to result in efficiency and quality-of-care improvements.
Achieving Better Value for Money in Health Care
OECD
02 Nov 2009
This report report examines selected policies that may help countries better achieve the goal of improved health system efficiency and thus better value for money.
Pharmaceutical Pricing Policies in a Global Market
OECD
24 Sept 2008
This report assesses how pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies have contributed to the achievement of certain health policy objectives, and it examines the national and transnational effects of these policies.