Health

Improving health is a key concern of OECD societies, as it can contribute to higher economic growth and improved welfare. This page contains information on work on health undertaken by different bodies of the OECD, for example on health indicators , health policies , the economics of health and environment and health . Keep informed about our work from our newsletter Health Update . Friendly URL for this web page: www.oecd.org/health

New Reports on Projections to 2015 for Agricultural and Health Biotechnologies

Two articles issued in the OECD journal provide evidence-based projections on the development of biotechnologies – the building blocks of the bioeconomy – up to 2015 in agriculture and health.

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Improving China’s health care system

Overall, health outcomes in China have improved tremendously over the past three decades, especially thanks to the reduction in some traditional infectious diseases.

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Expensive health care is not always the best health care, says OECD’s Health at a Glance

New internationally comparable indicators on quality of care show progress in treating serious conditions such as cancer. However, despite increasing rates of chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes, care for these conditions falls short of good practices in too many countries, resulting in deteriorating health and higher medical costs.

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OECD Health Policy Studies - Achieving Better Value for Money in Health Care

Rising public health care spending remains a problem in virtually all OECD and EU member countries. As a consequence, there is growing interest in policies that will ease this pressure through improved health system performance. 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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Internet update for OECD Health Data 2009 available now

The Internet update for OECD Health Data 2009 has just been released. Go to the OECD Health Data Update page to download the file and access data updates, along with a fully revised hypertext for Definitions, Sources and Methods.OECD Health Data Updates: Data, Sources and Methods, and Software Updates.

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Tracking the growth in Medical Tourism: OECD helps Ministers shape the debate

International trade in health services has been attracting increasing attention from health analysts, public health policy makers, and trade and tourism promotion agencies but with relatively little data to inform them. This statement was made by David Morgan of the Health Division at a roundtable meeting of ministers of health and tourism at the Medical Tourism and Global Health Congress, Los Angeles, October 26th-28th, 2009.

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Why does the United States spend so much more on health than other countries?

The United States spent 16% of its national income (GDP) on health in 2007, which is by far, the highest share in the OECD and more than seven percentage points higher than the average of 8.9% in OECD countries. This presentation was given by Mark Pearson, Head of OECD Health Division, to the U.S Senate Special Committee on Aging.

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Health Update No. 7 now available

Issue 7 of Health Update looks at the question of health spending in the current economic crisis. It also features other key health-related projects throughout the OECD (including information and communication technology, healthy ageing, obesity and long term care) and the recent release of OECD Health Data 2009.

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OECD Health Data 2009 – comparing health statistics across OECD countries

The number of doctors per capita increased 2% per year on average across OECD countries between 1990 and 2007, but in some countries the trend is reversing. These are some of the findings from OECD Health Data 2009, the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across the 30 OECD countries.

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Governments must do more to help most vulnerable amid rising unemployment, urges OECD

Governments must urgently adapt their labour market policies to help their most vulnerable citizens in the economic crisis, as was concluded at the High-Level Forum on Sickness, Disability and Work in May 2009. Key to this will be avoiding that the crisis further strengthens a disability benefit culture that pushes many people with disability onto benefit schemes and out of work for the rest of their lives.

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Obesity: analysis of trends in selected OECD countries

OECD Health Working Paper No. 45 provides an overview of past and projected future trends in adult overweight and obesity in selected OECD countries. Using individual-level data from repeated cross-sectional national surveys, some of the main determinants and pathways underlying the current obesity epidemic are explored, and possible policy levers for tackling the negative health effect of these trends are identified.

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Health status and access to care: measuring disparities

OECD Health Working Paper No. 43 assesses the availability and comparability of selected indicators of inequality in health status and in health care access and use across OECD countries, with a focus on disparities among socioeconomic groups.

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Joint OECD-World Bank Reviews of Health Systems - Turkey

This comprehensive review of Turkey's health care system shows that health status has improved rapidly in Turkey in recent decades, partly as a result of higher health spending.

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Healthy ageing policies in OECD member countries

OECD Health Working Paper No. 42 reviews policies in the area of healthy ageing. The paper begins by defining healthy ageing and related concepts such as active ageing. It then groups healthy ageing policies under four basic types and describes their programmes for improving the health status of older people.

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Strategic options to finance pensions and healthcare in a rapidly ageing world

The financial crisis is severely testing the soundness of pension and health care systems in OECD countries and many are not passing the test. At the World Economic Forum, Secretary-General Angel Gurría urged policy makers to act.

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Asian Policy Centre - health and social policy

The Joint OECD/Korea Policy Centre opened its doors in July 2008. It aims to develop data capacity in co-operation with individual country experts and international partners, and organises seminars, conferences and workshops to foster the exchange of technical information and policy experiences in sectors like health statistics, pension reforms and social expenditure.

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System of Health Accounts database now available on OECD.Stat Extracts

Detailed health expenditure and financing data from the 2008 Joint OECD-WHO-Eurostat Health Accounts Data Collection are freely available on OECD.Stat Extracts under the theme Health. Fully consistent with OECD Health Data, the System of Health Accounts database allows for more in-depth analysis of health spending and the detailed cross-classification between health care functions, providers and financing. Summary comparative tables and charts from the database can also be found via the main SHA page.

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Health Insurance

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