Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Realising the Potential of Primary Health Care written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines primary health care across OECD countries before the COVID-19 pandemic, and draws attention to how primary health care is not living up to its full potential. Doing things differently – through new models of organising services, better co-ordination among providers, better use of digital technology, and better use of resources and incentives – helps to improve care, reduce the need for hospitalisations, and mitigate health inequalities.

Download or read book Realising the Potential of Primary Health Care written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid spread of COVID-19 added urgency to the need to address long-standing pressures on health systems, linked to growing citizens' expectations, population ageing and more complex and costly health care needs. As the first point of contact, primary health care that provides comprehensive, continuous, and co-ordinated care is key to boosting preventive care, treating those who need care, and helping people become more active in managing their own health. It has the potential to improve health system efficiency and health outcomes for people across socio-economic levels, and make health systems people-centred. This report examines primary health care across OECD countries before the COVID-19 pandemic, and draws attention to how primary health care is not living up to its full potential. Doing things differently - through new models of organising services, better co-ordination among providers, better use of digital technology, and better use of resources and incentives - helps to improve care, reduce the need for hospitalisations, and mitigate health inequalities. This report identifies key policy challenges that OECD countries need to address to realise the full potential of primary health care, and reviews progress and innovations towards transforming primary health care.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Achieving Better Value for Money in Health Care written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Waiting Times for Health Services Next in Line written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report reviews a range of policies that countries have used to tackle waiting times for different services, including elective surgery and primary care consultations, but also cancer care and mental health services, with a focus on identifying the most successful ones.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Primary Health Care for Resilient Health Systems in Latin America written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American countries were hard hit by COVID-19 with rates of excess mortality above the OECD average. The pandemic brought additional stress to health systems already overstretched by a growing burden of chronic diseases, unequal access to health care services, overall under-investment in health and strong budgetary restrictions, and systemic inefficiencies.

Download or read book Implementing the Primary Health Care approach a primer written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Primer is about the 'how' of primary health care (PHC) and brings together best practices and knowledge that countries have generated through 'natural experiments' in strengthening PHC with the best available research evidence. Despite the progress made towards PHC globally, the concept is still often misunderstood, even within the public health community. The Primer offers a contemporary understanding of PHC and more conceptual clarity for strengthening PHC-oriented health systems. It does so by consolidating both scientific evidence and an extensive sample of practical experiences across countries for the needed evidence to address practical implementation issues. The Primer is organized in three parts. Part I explains the PHC approach, its history, core concepts and rationale, and draws out lessons for transformation. Part II addresses operational and strategic levers that make PHC work. It covers governance, financing and human resources for health, medicines, health technology, infrastructure and digital health, and their role in implementing change. Part III concludes with a cross-cutting view of the impacts of PHC on the health system, efficiency, quality of care, equity, access, financial protection and health systems resilience, including in the face of climate change.

Download or read book The OECD Health Project Towards High Performing Health Systems Policy Studies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2004-08-20 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of seven policy studies 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, private health insurance, and more.

Download or read book Integrating Care to Prevent and Manage Chronic Diseases Best Practices in Public Health written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People today are living longer with complex health needs but often receive fragmented care. This has prompted countries to support patient-centred, integrated care models. As part of OECD’s work on best practices in public health, this report outlines policy recommendations to prevent and manage chronic diseases by integrating care. Policy recommendations were drawn from a review of key integrated care models implemented in OECD and EU27 countries.

Download or read book OECD Reviews of Health Systems Primary Health Care in Brazil written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primary health care in Brazil is well-organised, the result of sustained commitment to providing high quality primary health care for the whole population. Brazil has implemented a set of reforms over the past decades to improve the distribution of doctors, develop new forms of service organisation, introduce new financing models, and implement a range of quality improvement initiatives.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Health in the 21st Century Putting Data to Work for Stronger Health Systems written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report explores how data and digital technology can help achieve policy objectives and drive positive transformation in the health sector while managing new risks such as privacy, equity and implementation costs. It examines the following topics: improving service delivery models; empowering people to take an active role in their health and their care; improving public health; managing biomedical technologies; enabling better collaboration across borders; and improving health system governance and stewardship.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Beating Cancer Inequalities in the EU Spotlight on Cancer Prevention and Early Detection written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report addresses the latest trends in cancer incidence and mortality in the EU and reviews key cancer risk factors, cancer screening programmes and early diagnoses, and issues in the provision of high-quality cancer care.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Promoting Health and Well being at Work Policy and Practices written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policies to promote employee health and well-being not only protect from occupational risks, but also provide benefits for individuals and employers. Unhealthy lifestyles, characterised by high levels of stress, sedentary behaviour and poor eating habits, affect the health of employees and negatively impact workplace productivity.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Health for the People by the People Building People centred Health Systems written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health systems have to meet the changing needs of an increasingly assertive population and an ever more complex health policy context. Digitalisation, population ageing, chronic diseases, new pandemic threats, and evolving expectations of what health services should deliver – and how – have raised questions of whether health systems meet the needs and facilitate engagement of the people.

Download or read book Health at a Glance 2021 OECD Indicators written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Improving Value in Health Care Measuring Quality written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication describes what international comparable quality measures are currently available and how to link these measures to quality policies such as accreditation, practice guidelines, pay-for-performance, national safety programmes and quality reporting.

Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Waiting Time Policies in the Health Sector What Works written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a framework to understand why there are waiting lists for elective surgery in some OECD countries and not in others. It also describes how waiting times are measured in OECD countries and reviews different policy approaches to tackling excessive waiting times.

Download or read book OECD Reviews of Health Systems Brazil 2021 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 30 years since the inception of the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, or SUS), Brazil has reduced health inequalities, and improved coverage and access to health care. However, mobilising sufficient financing for the universal health coverage mandate of SUS has been a constant challenge, not helped by persistent inefficiencies in the use of resources in the Brazilian health system.