OECD Reviews of Health Systems: Mexico 2016


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Ten years after the introduction of publically-funded universal health insurance, the Mexican health system finds itself at a critical juncture.




Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems Bridging Health and Finance Perspectives


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The health systems we enjoy today, and expected medical advances in the future, will be difficult to finance from public resources without major reforms. Public health spending in OECD countries has grown rapidly over most of the last half century. These spending increases have contributed to ...




Health Care Systems Efficiency and Policy Settings


Book Description

This book explores trends in health care outcomes and spending; ways of assessing efficiency; new indicators of health care policies and institutions; and the characteristics and performance of health care systems.




Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies


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This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.




Health at a Glance 2021 OECD Indicators


Book Description

Health at a Glance provides a comprehensive set of indicators on population health and health system performance across OECD members and key emerging economies. This edition has a special focus on the health impact of COVID-19 in OECD countries, including deaths and illness caused by the virus, adverse effects on access and quality of care, and the growing burden of mental ill-health.




Tackling Wasteful Spending on Health


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Countries could potentially spend significantly less on health care with no impact on health system performance, or on health outcomes. This report reviews strategies put in place by countries to limit ineffective spending and waste.




Health at a Glance 2019 OECD Indicators


Book Description

Health at a Glance compares key indicators for population health and health system performance across OECD members, candidate and partner countries. It highlights how countries differ in terms of the health status and health-seeking behaviour of their citizens; access to and quality of health care; and the resources available for health. Analysis is based on the latest comparable data across 80 indicators, with data coming from official national statistics, unless otherwise stated.




OECD Health Policy Studies Value for Money in Health Spending


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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.




Delivering Quality Health Services: A Global Imperative


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This report describes the current situation with regard to universal health coverage and global quality of care, and outlines the steps governments, health services and their workers, together with citizens and patients need to urgently take.




OECD Reviews of Health Care Quality: Korea 2012 Raising Standards


Book Description

This is the first country report in a new OECD series evaluating the quality of health care across OECD countries – whether care is safe, effective and responsive to patients’ needs.