Last year several new diagrams which illustrate the interrelations between the different actors on the health care systems in most Member countries were added. Some revisions have been made to this material. Warm thanks are also due to the hundreds of statisticians in the 29 Member countries who have produced the great mass of figures and qualitative information on which the data file is based. Introduction OECD Health Data 2000 is an interactive database comprising systematically collated data on a great number of key aspects of the health care systems in the 29 OECD Member countries within their general demographic, economic and social contexts. It also offers the option of exporting data to other software packages.
Users can select the variables, countries and years they want.
Basic Concepts describes the statistical base, its scope and limitations. The Bibliography provides a list of related OECD publications and where to obtain them. Last minute modifications to OECD Health Data 2000 are presented in the ReadMe.txt file. This file can be consulted at the end of the installation procedure. To read it later, simply click on the ReadMe icon in OECD Health Data 2000 .