Towards High-Performing Health Systems [electronic resource]: Policy Studies /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Organisation for Economic Co operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Docteur, Elizabeth.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2004.
This series of seven policy studies were the source material for the synthesis report of The OECD Health Project, Towards High-Performing Health Systems.  They cover lessons from experience in health system reform, improving the technical quality of health care, income-related inequality in health care, matching supply with demand for physicians and nurses, excessive waiting times, costs and benefits of private health insurance, and ageing-related spending projections.
Foreword; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Health-System Reform: Lessons from Experience; Chapter 2. Monitoring and Improving the Technical Quality of Medical Care: A New Challenge for Policy Makers in OECD Countries; Chapter 3. Income-related Inequality in the Use of Medical Care in 21 OECD Countries; Chapter 4. Matching Supply with Demand for the Services of Physicians and Nurses; Chapter 5. Tackling Excessive Waiting Times for Elective Surgery; Chapter 6. Private Health Insurance in OECD Countries: The Benefits and Costs for Individuals and Health Systems
Chapter 7. Ageing-related Spending Projections on Health and Long-term Care
At head of title: The OECD health project.
Includes bibliographical references.
This series of seven policy studies were the source material for the synthesis report of The OECD Health Project, Towards High-Performing Health Systems.  They cover lessons from experience in health system reform, improving the technical quality of health care, income-related inequality in health care, matching supply with demand for physicians and nurses, excessive waiting times, costs and benefits of private health insurance, and ageing-related spending projections.
Medical policy
Public health

The OECD Health Project