Measuring expenditure on health-related R&D.
Contributors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Series: Health; Health (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Publisher: OECD
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Medicine -- Research -- Accounting -- Methodology.; Health -- Research -- Accounting -- Methodology.; Medicine -- Research -- OECD countries -- Finance.; Health -- Research -- OECD countries -- Finance.; Federal aid to medical research -- OECD countries.
Description: Science and technology improves human health but the pressure for faster and larger improvements is building with the continued ageing of the population of many OECD countries and the associated increased demands for health care. A fundamental starting point for better understanding of the impact of innovation on health is the measurement of R&D. This publication addresses this issue by looking in detail at measurement practices across ten OECD member countries as well as the main international sources.